Panagiotis Vouzis

Panagiotis Vouzis, Ph.D.

Center for Advanced Process Decision-making

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Ave.,

Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making at the Chemical Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University.

Research Interests:

· General Purpose Graphics Processing Units

· FPGA Hardware design

· Computer Arithmetic, Logarithmic Number System

· Model Predictive Control for Embedded Applications

NEWS

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· 01/19/2012: The paper “GPU-BLAST: using graphics processors to accelerate protein sequence alignment,” Bioinformatics, vol. 27, no. 2, pages 182-188, 2011 (Open Access), was one of the journal's top-ten highest downloaded articles published in 2011. GPU-BLAST is available here.

· 11/10/2011: The poster “GPU Computing in Bioinformatics, Linear Algebra and Monte Carlo Simulations” accepted to the semifinals of the INFORMS 2011 Interactive Session Competition.

· 08/24/2011: The paper “Improving Model Predictive Control Arithmetic Robustness by Monte Carlo Simulations,” has been accepted in IET Control Theory & Applications.

· 05/05/2011: New version of GPU-BLAST (GPU-BLAST-1.0_NCBI-BLAST-2.2.25) released!

· 03/15/2011: The paper “GPU simulations for risk assessment in CO2 geologic sequestration,” has been accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering.

· 01/29/2011: GPU-BLAST found commercial use in bioinformatics services through the cloud by Nimbix.

· 01/10/2011: GPU-BLAST is listed in NVIDIA's Tesla Bio Workbench.

· 01/10/2011: The paper “GPU-BLAST: using graphics processors to accelerate protein sequence alignment,” has been published in Bioinformatics, vol. 27, no. 2, pages 182-188, 2011 (Open Access). GPU-BLAST is available here.

· 11/30/2010: The patent Iterative matrix processor based implementation of real-time model predictive control has been granted by USPTO.

· 11/18/2010: The paper “GPU-BLAST: using graphics processors to accelerate protein sequence alignment,” has been accepted in Bioinformatics (Open Access). GPU-BLAST is available here.

· 05/16/2010: The paper “Bitstream Efficiency of Field Programmable One-Hot Arrays” has been accepted in the IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2010.

· 04/28/2010: Invited to present “A GPU implementation of BLAST” in the INFORMS annual meeting, 2010.

· 02/15/2010: I am attending the 3^rd Workshop on General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units at the ASPLOS 2010.

· 10/10/2009: The paper “A System-on-a-Chip Implementation for Embedded Real-Time Model Predictive Control” on IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology is the No. 1 accessed document in September 2009.

· 01/10/2009: I am attending the “Workshop on High Performance Computational Finance” at the 2009 Supercomputing conference.

· 09/09/2009: I am presenting, at the 2009 AIChE annual meeting, the abstract “Iterative Methods for Solving PDEs on a Graphics Processing Unit,” which involves GPU acceleration of linear algebra algorithms.

· 09/09/2009: Yan Zhang is presenting, at the 2009 AIChE annual meeting, the abstract “Risk Assessment for CO2 Geologic Sequestration,” which involves GPU acceleration of Monte Carlo Simulations.

Last update: 01/19/2012