Wu-chun Feng

Wu-chun Feng is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, holding the Elizabeth & James E. Turner Jr. '56 Faculty Fellowship. He directs the SyNeRGy Laboratory and is affiliated with the School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, CHREC, VBI, and Wireless @ VT. His research focuses on high-performance computing, energy-efficient systems, bioinformatics, and heterogeneous architectures.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996)
• M.S. in Computer Engineering, Penn State University (1990)
• B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Music (Honors), Penn State University (1988)

Research Interests: His work spans high-performance computing systems, green supercomputing (e.g., Green500 List, Green Destiny), computational biology (mpiBLAST), and parallel programming models. He emphasizes energy-efficient architectures and interdisciplinary applications in biomedicine and data science.

Key Contributions:

• Green500 List: Ranks energy-efficient supercomputers globally
• mpiBLAST: Parallel implementation of NCBI BLAST
• Supercomputing in Small Spaces initiative

Awards:

• Three R&D 100 Awards (Green Supercomputing, High-Speed Networking, Bioinformatics)
• Over 15 Best & Outstanding Paper Awards

Service & Leadership:

• Editorial roles in journals like IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology
• Conference leadership (SC, ICPP, etc.)
• Director of SyNeRGy Lab and CUDA Research Center