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Research Interests

I am broadly interested in parallel algorithms, algorithm engineering, and high performance computer architectures. I am especially interested in the interplay between algorithms and current and future architectures in processing computationally demanding applications.

Publications

* Journal Publications

1. David A. Bader, Virat Agarwal, Kamesh Madduri, and Seunghwa Kang, "High Performance Combinatorial Algorithm Design on the Cell Broadband Engine Processor," Parallel Computing, 33(10-11):720-740, 2007. [download]

2. David A. Bader, Virat Agarwal, and Seunghwa Kang, "Computing Discrete Transforms on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine," Parallel Computing, 35(3):119-137, 2009. [download]

* Conference Presentations with Proceedings

1. Seunghwa Kang and David A. Bader, "Optimizing JPEG2000 Still Image Encoding on the Cell Broadband Engine," The 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Portland, OR, September 8th-12th, 2008. (81 papers accepted out of 263 papers submitted: 30.8% acceptance rate) [download]

2. Seunghwa Kang and David A. Bader, "An Efficient Transactional Memory Algorithm for Computing Minimum Spanning Forest of Sparse Graphs," The 14th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), Raleigh, NC, February 14th-18th, 2009. (26 papers accepted out of 109 papers submitted: 23.9% acceptance rate) [download]

3. Seunghwa Kang, David A. Bader, and Richard Vuduc, "Understanding the Design Trade-offs among Current Multicore Systems for Numerical Computing," The 23rd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rome, Italy, May 25th-29th, 2009. (100 papers accepted out of 440 papers submitted: 22.7% acceptance rate) [download]

* Workshop Presentations with Proceedings

1. Seunghwa Kang and David A. Bader, "Large Scale Complex Network Analysis using the Hybrid Combination of a MapReduce cluster and a Highly Multithreaded System," The 4th Workshop on Multithreaded Architectures and Applications (MTAAP), Atlanta, Georgia, April 23rd, 2010. (11 papers accepted out of 22 papers submitted: 50.0% acceptance rate) [download]

* Workshop Presentations without Proceedings

1. Seunghwa Kang and David A. Bader, "Optimizing Discrete Wavelet Transform on the Cell Broadband Engine," The 12th Annual High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop (HPEC), Lexington, MA, September 23rd-25th, 2008.

* Poster Presentations

1. Seunghwa Kang, Sulabh Patel, and David A. Bader, "CellBuzz Project: Multimedia and Data Compression Library Optimization for the Cell Broadband Engine," SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP), Atlanta, GA, March 12th-14th, 2008.

2. Abhinav Saxena, George Vachtsevanos, Seunghwa Kang, and David A. Bader, "Real-Time Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis of Aircraft Systems on the Cell Broadband Engine," SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP), Atlanta, GA, March 12th-14th, 2008.

3. Seunghwa Kang, "On the Design of Efficient Parallel Algorithms for the Next Generation Multicore and Manycore Architectures," TCPP PhD forum (at IPDPS), Rome, Italy, May 25th-29th, 2009.