Chen Ding

Chen Ding is a Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Rochester. He holds a PhD from Rice University (2000). His research focuses on program analysis, optimization, and memory management, particularly in the areas of locality theory, compilers, parallel programming, and high-performance computing. He has received prestigious awards including the DOE Early Career Principal Investigator award (2001), NSF CAREER award (2002), and IBM CAS faculty fellowship (2005-2009).

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, Rice University, 2000

Research Interests:

• Locality theory and optimization
• Compilers and runtime systems for parallelism
• Memory management strategies
• High-performance computing systems

Key Contributions: His work on reuse distance in memory hierarchy and compiler-assisted cache management (CLAM) has been foundational in optimizing data movement and parallelism. Recent research explores data movement complexity for machine learning and generative AI-driven memory workload synthesis.

Awards:

• IPDPS Best Paper Award (2001)
• DragonStar Lecturer (ICT China, 2008)

Grants & Advising: As department chair, he oversees research grants and faculty development. No specific student advising details are listed here.