Devesh Tiwari

Professor Devesh Tiwari is a tenured faculty member and Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing in the Office of the Provost at Northeastern University. Devesh’s research group, the Goodwill Computing Lab, is recognized for pioneering research and translational contributions in the areas of HPC, quantum computing, and environmentally sustainable computing — often featuring first-of-its-kind experimental demonstrations, production deployments, large-scale open-source community datasets, and over 50 publications in all venues listed on csrankings.org.

His research has been recognized with multiple awards including NSF CAREER Award on quantum computing, IEEE/IFIP Dependability Rising Star Award, IEEE TCSC MCR Excellence in Research Award, Facebook/Meta Faculty Research Award, Northeastern COE Faculty Fellow Award, US DOE ORNL’s NCCS Division Director Appreciation Award, etc.

For his teaching and mentoring efforts, Devesh was awarded the Northeastern COE Martin Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award, and Professor of the Year by the Northeastern University IEEE student chapter and has consistently received near-perfect teaching evaluation scores. His recent PhD graduates are tenure-track faculty members at top CS departments in the country (e.g., Rice University, and the University of Utah).

For his community leadership and contributions, Devesh was recognized with the IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award and the IEEE TPDS Editorial Excellence Award (twice) for his exceptional contributions to the TPDS journal as an editor. He serves as the steering committee co-chair of ACM HPDC, and on the SC (Supercomputing) steering committee (one of the largest annual CS conferences attended by over 10,000 researchers and practitioners) – the topmost conferences in the HPC research area.