Srinivas Aluru

Srinivas Aluru
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materIowa State University
AwardsJohn V. Atanasoff Discovery Award (2017)
IEEE Fellow (2010)
AAAS Fellow (2010)
Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2007-2012)
IEEE Computer Society Golden Core
IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service
NSF Career (1997)
ACM Fellow (2020)
SIAM Fellow (2020)
IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award (2025)
Scientific career
FieldsHigh performance computing, data science, bioinformatics, scientific computing, string algorithms
InstitutionsIowa State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis Distribution-independent hierarchical N-body methods
Doctoral advisorJohn Gustafson, G.M. Prabhu

Srinivas Aluru is a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and co-Executive Director for the Georgia Tech Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Data Engineering and Science. His main areas of research are high performance computing, data science, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial methods in scientific computing, and string algorithms. Aluru is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is best known for his research contributions in parallel algorithms and applications, interdisciplinary research in bioinformatics and computational biology, and particularly the intersection of these two fields.