Biography

Hi, I’m Alok! I’m a 2nd-year CS Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, advised by Aydın Buluç and Kathy Yelick. I am affiliated with the PASSION Lab, the BeBOp Group, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Very broadly, I want to discover what scientific questions we can answer if computational performance were not an issue. To that end, I work on accelerating scientific computation on large-scale supercomputers. I am currently interested in scaling graph-representation learning, with applications to bioinformatics. In the past, I worked on accelerating graph analytics on GPUs. My work is supported by the NSF Fellowship.

I am also passionate about science communication and write regularly for the Berkeley Science Review.

Before coming to Berkeley, I worked with Oded Green in David Bader’s HPC lab at Georgia Tech (Go Jackets!).