Richard (Rich) Vuduc is an associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), and also serves as the Associate Chair for Academic Affairs in the School of CSE and the Director of CSE Graduate Programs. His lab, the HPC Garage, is interesting in performance programming and analysis. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Rich was a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His was a member of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Computer Science Study Group (2009), and has won several awards, including an R&D 100 Award (2009); the US National Science Foundation's CAREER Award (2010); a jointly-awarded Gordon Bell Prize (2010); and most recently a Best Paper Awards at the SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM, 2012) and IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS, 2015), as well as the Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award (2013).