Andrew Ian Stone

Objective

To obtain a postdoctoral research position in computer science with the aim of gaining experience, expanding my publication record, learning, and making a valuable contribution. My interests include high-performance computing, programming models, parallel programming, compilers, languages, and program analysis.

Experience

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Internships

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• SIParCS Intern (May 2010 - Aug 2010)
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
  

  At NCAR I worked with John Dennis on exploring the applicability of using Co-Array Fortran to refactor a Conjugate Gradient miniapp.

  
  
• Software Engineering Intern (May 2008 - Aug 2008)
  Cray Inc., on Chapel team.
  

  During my internship at Cray I worked on implementing the HPL benchmark in Chapel, authored various tests, aided in designing a new language operator, and began implementing debugging support for task parallelism. This benchmark was part of the award winning "most productive implementation" submission for the HPC Challenge Competition at the SC2008 conference.

  
  
• Undergraduate intern scholar (May 2006 - Aug 2006)
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Institute for Scientific Computing Research.

  While at Livermore I worked on the ROSE compiler infrastructure, interfacing it with the OpenAnalysis toolkit, and studied the scalability (both in terms of memory and computation) of an implementation of the FIAlias algorithm.

  
  

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  Research and Teaching Assistantships

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• Teaching Assistant (Jan 2012 - May 2012)
  

  Assisted teaching CS453 (Introduction to Compiler Construction). Specficially, I developed and instructed recitation sessions, graded programming assignments, and helped the instructor organize programming assignments. In this course students wrote a compiler for a subset of Java called MeggyJava. They generated code to work on ATmega328p microcontrollers.

• Research Assistant (May 2007 - present)
  for Dr. Michelle Strout at Colorado State University Dept. of Computer Science.

  Currently I am looking at patterns for parallel programming and various mechanisms for implementing them efficiently. In my past efforts with Dr. Strout I've aided in various manners on the OpenAnalysis programming analysis toolkit. I've also created a language and compiler for producing data-flow analyzers, and have worked on researching and implementing a network simulator that is able to scale to large problem sizes (100k+ nodes in the simulated network), this simulator runs efficiently on distributed and shared memory parallel machines.

  
  
• Undergraduate Research Assistant (Sep 2005 - May 2007)
  for Dr. Michelle Strout at the Colorado State University Dept. of Computer Science.

  I aided in the development of regression tests for the OpenAnalysis project and developed a tool that automatically produces output methods for classes by analyzing annotated header files.

  
  

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  Volunteer Activity

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• Student Volunteer for International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC) 2008 (Austin), 2009 (Portland), and 2011 (Seattle)

• Student Scribe for DOE Exascale Research Conference (April 2012, Portland)

Education

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science (Anticipated June 2013)
  Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO
  
  
• Master of Science in Computer Science (August 2009)
  Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO
  
  
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (May 2007)
  Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO
  
  
• Scholarships
  Colorado State University - Academic Achievement (2003-2004)
  James Sites and Elaine Regelson Undergraduate Research Scholarship (2006-2007)
  National Science Foundation Fast Track award (2007)
  
  
• Related Coursework
  CS420 (Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms)
  CS453 (Introduction to Compiler Construction)
  CS454 (Principles of Programming Languages)
  CS460 (Embedded Systems)
  CS475 (Parallel Programming)
  CS518 (Distributed Software Systems Development)
  CS520 (Analysis of Algorithms)
  CS553 (Algorithmic Language Compilers)
  CS560 (Reconfigurable Computing)
  CS653 (Topics in Programming Language Implementation)
  CS670C (Special Topics in Architecture/Systems - Distributed Systems)
  CS675 (Advanced Parallel Computing)
  

Publications

@inproceedings{stone13,
    Author = {Andrew Stone and Michelle Mills Strout},
    Booktitle = {To be published in:
        Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS)}, 
    Month = {June},
    Title = {Programming Abstractions to Separate Concerns in Semi-Regular Grids },
    Year = {2013}}

    
  

@inproceedings{Krieger13,
    Author = {Christopher D. Krieger and Michelle Mills Strout and Catherine Olschanowsky and
    Andrew Stone and Stephen Guzik and Xinfeng Gao and Carlo Bertolli and Paul H.J. Kelly and
    Gihan Mudalige and Brian Van Straalen and Sam Williams
    },
    Booktitle = {To be published in:
        Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS)}, 
    Month = {May},
    Title = {Loop Chaining: A Programming Abstraction For Balancing Locality and Parallelism},
    Year = {2013}}

    
  

@inproceedings{StroutScidac11,
    Author = {Michelle Mills Strout and Christopher Krieger and Andrew Stone and Christopher Wilcox and John Dennis and James Bieman},
    Booktitle = {Proceedings of {SciDAC} },
    Title = {Evaluating the Separation of Algorithm and Implementation within Existing Programming Models},
    Year = {2011}}

    
  

 @inproceedings{CGPOP2011,
    Author = {Andrew I. Stone and John M. Dennis and Michelle Mills Strout},
    Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Partitioned Global
                 Address Space Programming Models (PGAS)},
    Month = {October 15,},
    Title = {Evaluating Coarray Fortran with the CGPOP Miniapp},
    Year = {2011}}
    
  

@inproceedings{FIT2010,
    Author = {Christopher D. Krieger and Andrew I. Stone and Michelle Mills Strout},
    Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fun Ideas and Thoughts Session at PLDI},
    Month = {June 8,},
    Title = {Qualitative Evaluation Criteria for Parallel Programming Models},
    Year = {2010}}


    
  

@inproceedings{Stone10,
	Author = {Andrew I. Stone and Steven DiBenedetto and Michelle Mills Strout and Daniel Massey},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF)},
	Month = {May 17-19,},
	Title = {Scalable Simulation of Complex Network Routing Policies},
	Year = {2010}}


    
  

@inproceedings{ParaPLOP10,
	Author = {Christopher D. Krieger and Andrew Stone and Michelle Mills Strout},
	Booktitle = {Workshop on Parallel Programming Patterns (ParaPLOP)},
	Month = {March},
	Title = {Mechanisms that Separate Algorithms from Implementations for Parallel Patterns},
	Year = {2010}}

    
  

@article{Stone2009,
	Author = {Stone, Andrew and Strout, Michelle and Behere, Shweta},
	Journal = {Information and Software Technology},
	Month = {October},
	Number = {10},
	Pages = {1440--1453},
	Title = {May/must analysis and the DFAGen data-flow analysis generator},
	Volume = {51},
	Year = {2009}}

    
  

@inproceedings{Stone2008,
	Author = {Andrew Stone and Michelle Mills Strout and Shweta Behere},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)},
	Title = {Automatic Determination of May/Must Set Usage in Data-Flow Analysis},
	Year = {2008}}

    
  

Posters

• The CGPOP Miniapp Presented at DOE SciDAC 2011 in Denver, CO and FRCRC 2011 in Goldon, CO.
• Establishing a Miniapp as a Performance and Programmability Proxy Presented at PPoPP 2012 in New Orleans, LA.
• An Active Library for Semi Regular Grids (Best Student Poster Competition Winner) Presented at FRCRC 2012 in Fort Collins, CO
• Abstractions for Defining Semi-Regular Grids Orthogonally from Stencil Computations Presented at LCPC 2012 in Tokyo, Japan.

Skills

• Languages: C, C++, Fortran (Co-Array Fortran), Java, Python, Chapel
• Compiler Development: ROSE
• Parallel Programming: MPI, OpenMP
• Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Drupal
• Revision Control\Software Management: Subversion, GIT, CVS, Redmine
• Build Systems: GNU Make, CMake

References

Available on request.