Mark Gates

Mark Gates is a Research Assistant Professor at the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His work focuses on high performance computing (HPC), scientific computing, and linear algebra, particularly leveraging multi-core and GPU architectures. He contributes to projects like SLATE, PLASMA, and MAGMA, advancing dense and sparse linear algebra libraries for modern parallel systems. His research emphasizes scalable algorithms, communication-avoiding techniques, and exascale computing.

Education: Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2011, 2007, 1998).

Research interests include parallel algorithms, numerical stability, and GPU acceleration. Recent work highlights include task-based polar decomposition, mixed-precision algorithms, and efficient sparse linear algebra operations. His articles address challenges in distributed computing, library development, and performance optimization.

Labs/Teams: Active in ICL, collaborating on HPC software for exascale systems. No scientific awards explicitly listed, though contributions to foundational HPC libraries are notable.