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Ioan Raicu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and a guest research faculty at Argonne National Laboratory's Math and Computer Science Division. He leads the Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory (DataSys) at IIT, focusing on distributed systems, cloud computing, and high-performance computing. His work is primarily funded by the NSF and DOE.
Research interests include distributed systems, many-task computing, and data-intensive applications. Over 140 peer-reviewed publications have yielded a H-index of 46, with top papers addressing cloud vs. grid computing comparisons, Globus GridFTP, Swift workflow systems, and Falkon frameworks. Recent projects explore fine-grained parallelism, scalable indexing, and energy-efficient blockchain algorithms.
Awards include NSF grants and recognition for lab innovations. Advised PhD students include Alexandru Orhean and Poornima Nookala. The DataSys lab has won the Grainger Computing Innovation Prize and leads initiatives like the BigDataX REU program. Active in conferences such as SC and IEEE IPDPS, Raicu's work bridges theory and practice in extreme-scale computing systems.
