JARIC ZOLA

I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the State Univeristy of New York at Buffalo. At UB, I lead SCoRe - Scalable Computing Research Group. The group focus is on algorithms, data structures and systems to enable fast and accurate exploration of large-scale biomedical and engineering data collections using advanced cyberinfrastructures. In SCoRe, we design and implement systems that scale from multi- and many-cores to petascale systems and beyond.

I received M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland) and Ph.D. degree from Grenoble Institute of Technology (France) in 2001 and 2005, respectively. In 2014 I joined University at Buffalo where I work to date. Prior to joining UB I worked at Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute and Iowa State University.

In 2014, I served on the joint AAAS and FBI working group on Big Data in Life Sciences and National Security. I am a founding co-chair of the ACM International Workshop on Big Data in Life Sciences (BigLS) and the Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology (PBC). I am a senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Association for the Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM SIGHPC and ACM SIGBio. Currently, I serve as a Student Travel Awards Chair for IEEE TCPP. I am an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Processing.

Outside of my professional life  I LOVE PROGRAMMING! Writing good code just makes me feel good :-) I also pursue photography, touch on design and typography, and I am a big fan of Riverside, one of the best new generation prog rock bands. You are welcome to visit my virtual photo gallery!

Finally, my first name is Jarosław, which in Polish shortens to Jarek. However, I usually go by Jaric, which is a consensus of the most common misspellings of Jarek I encountered in emails addressed to me :-) Anyway, you can use any form you like, I will not be offended!

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IPDPS 2023 Program Committee

I am on the program committee of IPDPS 2023.

10/18/2022, 06:40 AM

Sabbatical

Starting Fall 2022 I am on sabbatical leave, hanging out in Europe (till Summer 2023). As I seem to have some free time ;-) do not hesitate to ping me if you would like to meet!

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Dr. Jaroslaw Zola

Associate Professor
University at Buffalo, SUNY

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Davis Hall
Buffalo, NY, 14260-2500

  jzola@buffalo.edu
  +1 (716) 645-3187
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I am always looking for motivated students to work with. If you know how to program (especially systems programming) and have some of the skills in this list (in no specific order): mastery of modern C++ or Rust, the ability to design practically efficient algorithms, basics of bioinformatics or biomedical informatics, you should contact me! However, before you proceed make sure that your email does not contain anything resembling: I am intersted in ML and AI... If your email implies your interest in ML/AI and claims that my research is aligned with your interests the email goes directly to /dev/null!

When you join SCoRe, you will be given an opportunity to program some of the fastest supercomputers in the world and work on problems pertaining to human health, big data and intriguing physical systems.

The free lunch is over and the ability to design scalable solutions is a critical asset desired by both industry and academia. Life sciences have been caught in data deluge with the estimated market value of hundreds of billions USD, triggered by rapidly advancing DNA sequencing technologies. The progress in engineering depends more than ever on massive amounts of sensor and simulation data. SCoRe, Scalable Computing Research Group, is focused on problems at the intersection of scalable computing and life sciences, as well as data-driven scientific computing – a very unique combination! Visit http://www.score-group.org/ to learn more about the group!

 

Office Hours

I am on a sabbatical leave till Fall 2023.