Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Professor, Computer Science

Education:

M.S., Electronics, Warsaw Technical University, 1973
Ph.D., Computer Science, National Academy of Science, Warsaw, 1976

Career Highlights:

Szymanski served as a visiting assistant professor in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania from 1982 through '85. He then joined Rensselaer as an associate professor of computer science. He currently serves as professor of computer science, chair of the Information Technology Research Board and associate dean for information technology. During his career, he has served as a consultant and entrepreneur for many companies including the United Nations Development Office, IBM Corporation and General Electric Corporation. He earned a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Mathematics in 1968; was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1999; and earned first place in SuCuPar93, international parallel computation competition in Mannheim, Germany in 1993. Szymanski served as guest editor for the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Applied Computing journal called Applied Computing Review in 1996 and has been editor-in-chief of Scientific Programming since 2000.

Research Areas:

Szymanski's research interests include network management and simulation, including the Internet; network middleware and web-based computing; scientific parallel computation, in particular run-time optimization; load balancing and monitoring of parallel and distributed object-oriented programs; optimization of scientific computations on the grid; and algorithm design and verification for parallel and distributed systems. He led the development of TEMPEST, the Territorially Explicit Multi-Processor Ecological System Tool for building population biology models. Another simulation tool has been developed for IBM SP-series machines using Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) for modeling Lyme disease.

Selected Publications:

E. Deelman and B. K. Szymanski, "Simulating Spatially Explicit Problems on High Performance Architecture," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 62, 2002, pp. 446-467.

B. K. Szymanski, Q. Gu, and Y. Liu. "Time-Network Partitioning for Large-Scale Parallel Network Simulation Under SSFNet," Proc. Applied Telecommunication Symposium, ATS2002, B. Bodnar (edt), San Diego, CA, April 14-17, 2002, SCS Press, pp. 90-95.

T. Caraco, S. Glavankov, B. Szymanski, G. Cheng, T. Ohsumi and J. Flaherty, "Stage-structured Infection Transmission and a Spatial Epidemics: A Model for Lyme Disease," American Naturalist, to appear, 2002.

S. Koenig, Y. Liu, and B. K. Szymanski, "Efficient and Inefficient Ant Coverage Methods," Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 31, no. 1-4, pp. 41-76, May 2001.

T. Caraco, W. Maniatty, and B. K. Szymanski, "Population Dispersion and Equilibrium Infection Frequency in a Spatial Epidemic," PhysicaD, vol. 132, pp. 511-519, 1999.

J. E. Flaherty, R. M. Loy, C. Ozturan, M. S. Shephard, B. K. Szymanski, J. D. Teresco, and L. H. Ziantz, "Parallel Structures and Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Finite Element Computation," Applied Numerical Mathematics, 26, no. 1-2, pp. 241-263, 1998.

W. Kaplow and B. K. Szymanski, "Compile-Time Cache Performance Prediction," Parallel Processing Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 393-407, 1997.

W. Maniatty and B. K. Szymanski, "Fine-Grain Discrete Voronoi Diagram Algorithm in L_1 and L_infinty Norms," Mathematical and Computer Modeling, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 71-78, 1997.

C. Norton, B. K. Szymanski, and V. Decyk, "Object-Oriented Parallel Computation for Plasma Simulation," Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), vol. 38, no. 10, Oct. 1995, pp. 88-100.

B. K. Szymanski and N. Prywes, "Efficient Handling of Data Structures in Definitional Languages," Science of Computer Programming, vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 221-245, 1988.

Contact Information:

Boleslaw K. Szymanski
204 Lally Hall
(518) 276-2714
szymansk@cs.rpi.edu
www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk