Featured Alumni

Dr. Gary Kumfert
PhD, Old Dominion University, 2000

Dr. Gary Kumfert is a computer scientist at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). His current research focuses on software systems to facilitate multidisciplinary, massively parallel scientific and engineering computations. At LLNL, Gary is a principal architect of Babel (www.llnl.gov/CASC/components), an open source language interoperability tool. Babel seamlessly connects C, C++, Fortran77, Fortran 90, Java, and Python code in a single address space for maximal performance -- no messaging or interpreted middleware. Gary serves as the LLNL-PI in the Common Component Architecture Forum (cca-forum.org).

A DOE-sponsored consortium of government laboratories and universities, the CCA is creating software component systems in support of computational science and engineering. Gary's principal function in the CCA is to coordinate all the framework and infrastructure development. Babel and CCA will each be presenting full-day tutorials at Supercomputing '04 (www.sc-conference.org/sc2004).

Dr. Kumfert earned both his Ph.D. in computer science (2000) and B.S. in applied mathematics (1993) at Old Dominion University. He did his dissertation under Prof. Alex Pothen in the areas of object-oriented programming and graph algorithms for sparse matrix computations.

He is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and SIAM.