Devesh Tiwari
Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing,
Office of the Provost
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Contact
- d.tiwari@northeastern.edu
- 308 Dana
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 617.373.8999
Research Focus
High performance computing (HPC), Quantum Computing, and Sustainable Computing.
About
Professor Devesh Tiwari is the Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing at Northeastern University, where he provides university-level leadership and strategic vision for research computing across the global university system of Northeastern University. He is also the director of the Goodwill Computing Lab, where his research group is focused on making large-scale classical and quantum computing systems faster, cheaper, and environmentally more sustainable. Before joining academia, he worked as a research staff scientist at the Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Devesh’s research group is recognized for pioneering research and translational contributions in the areas of HPC, quantum computing, and environmentally sustainable computing — often first-of-its kind experimental demonstration, production deployment, and large-scale open-source community datasets. His research has been recognized with multiple awards including NSF CAREER Award on quantum computing, IEEE/IFIP Dependability Rising Star Award, IEEE TCSC MCR Excellence in Research Award, Facebook/Meta Faculty Research Award, Northeastern COE Faculty Fellow Award, US DOE ORNL’s Lab-wide Outstanding Research Accomplishment Award Nomination, US DOE ORNL’s NCCS Division Director Appreciation Award, etc.
His research group has produced four (14) award-winning or finalist papers at conferences such at SC, HPDC, IPDPS, DSN, DATE, HPEC, etc., with over 50 publications in all venues listed on csrankings.org. His group has a unique record of having more than two papers at the same conference edition at many conferences over the last ten years, including SC’24 (x4), SC’23 (x4), ASPLOS’24 (x3), HPDC’23 (x2), SC’22 (x2), ASPLOS’22 (x2), SC’21 (x2) FAST’20 (x3), SC’20 (x3), DSN’18 (x3), SC’17 (x2), SC’16 (x2), SC’15 (x4).
For his teaching and mentoring efforts, he was awarded the Northeastern COE Martin Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award, and Professor of the Year by the Northeastern University IEEE student chapter and has consistently received near-perfect teaching evaluation scores. His student advisees have received numerous prestigious awards including ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Award (x2), ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowships Award, MLSys Rising Star Award (x2), University-wide and College-wide Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Research (x3), and Cadence Research Award. His recent PhD students graduates are tenure-track faculty members at top CS departments in the country (e.g., Rice University, and University of Utah).
He is the steering committee co-chair of ACM HPDC, and was elected to be on the SC (Supercomputing) steering committee (one of the largest annual CS conferences attended by over 10,000 researchers) – two of the topmost conferences in the HPC research area. He was recognized with the IEEE TPDS Editorial Excellence Award (twice) for his exceptional contributions to the TPDS journal as an editor. He was selected to be the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for ACM HPDC and the overall technical Program Committee Co-Chair for IEEE IPDPS. In these roles, he has introduced several novel changes to the peer-review process which have persisted across years.
Honors & Awards
Recent Selected Awards and Recognitions
- IEEE TCSC MCR Research Excellence in Scalable Computing, 2024.
- Northeastern COE Martin W. Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award, 2024.
- Editorial Excellence Award. IEEE Transactions of Parallel & Distributed Systems (TPDS) journal, 2024.
- Northeastern College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, 2023.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2022.
- Facebook/Meta Research Award, 2022.
- Editorial Excellence Award. IEEE Transactions of Parallel & Distributed Systems (TPDS) journal, 2022.
- Program Chair Award, ACM HPDC Conference, 2022.
- Rising Star in Dependability Award, IEEE TC on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance, 2021.
- Professor of the Year Award, IEEE HKN Northeastern University Student Chapter, 2019.
- IEEE/IFIP DSN Conference Hall of Fame List, 2018.
Best Paper Distinctions and Awards
(over a dozen best paper distinctions)
[SC’24] Best Student Paper Finalist (first of the four accepted papers), 37th IEEE/ACM SC Conference, 2024.
[SC’24] Best Student Paper Finalist (second of the four accepted papers), 37th IEEE/ACM SC Conference, 2024.
[SC’23] Best Paper Finalist, 36th IEEE/ACM SC Conference, 2023.
[HPDC’23] Best Paper Award, Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at The 32nd HPDC Conference, 2023.
[DATE’22] Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE DATE Conference, 2022.
[HPEC’22] Outstanding Paper Award, 26th IEEE HPEC Conference, 2022.
[HPEC’21] Outstanding Student Paper Award, 25th IEEE HPEC Conference, 2021.
[SC’20] Best Paper Finalist, 33th IEEE/ACM SC Conference, 2020.
[SC’20] Best Student Paper Finalist, 33th IEEE/ACM SC Conference, 2020.
[ICCAD’20] Best Paper Finalist, 39th IEEE/ACM ICCAD Conference, 2020.
[SC’16] Best Student Paper Finalist, 29th IEEE/ACM SC Conference, 2016.
[DSN’14] Best Paper Finalist, 44th IEEE/IFIP DSN Conference, 2014.
[SC’14] Best Paper Finalist, 27th IEEE/ACM SC Conference, 2014.
[IPDPS’12] Best Paper Award Nominee, 26th IEEE IPDPS Conference, 2012.
Leadership Positions
Technical Community Leadership
- Steering Committee Co-Chair, ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC).
- Steering Committee Member, ACM/IEEE Int’l Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC ).
- Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC).
Selected Journal Editorship
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2020-present.
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2023-2024.
- Associate Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2019-2024.
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2019-2024.
Selected Conference Program Committee (PC) Chairship
- HIPC’24 PC Co-Chair, 31st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), 2024.
- IPDPS’23 PC Co-Chair, 37th IEEE Int’l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2023.
- HPDC’22 PC Co-Chair, 31st ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2022.
- IISWC’20 PC Co-Chair, 16th IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2020.
Research Overview
High performance computing (HPC), Quantum Computing, and Sustainable Computing.
Selected Research Projects
- End‐to‐end Object‐focused Software‐defined Data Management for Science
- Principal Investigator, Department of Energy
- HARMONIA: New Methods for Colocating Multiple QoS-Sensitive Jobs
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- REYAZ: Reliability-Aware Job Scheduling for HPC Systems
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- FLECHA: Accurate and Efficient Fault Injection Methodologies for Large-Scale Parallel Programs
- – Principal Investigator, Department of Energy/Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
- MEWA: New Methods for Performance Benchmarking and Evaluation of Emerging Data-Intensive Workloads on Heterogeneous Computing Accelerators
- – Principal Investigator, Air Force Research Lab/MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- North East Storage Exchange
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation/ Boston University
Research Centers and Institutes
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
Quantum Computing
[SC 2024 (a)] LexiQL: Quantum Natural Language Processing on NISQ-era Machines
Sustainable Computing
[SC 2024 (b)] ECO-LIFE: High-Performance and Carbon-Aware Serverless Workloads Scheduling via Multi-generation Hardware
Feb 06, 2025
Sustainability Research Recognized at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari and a group of his PhD students were recognized at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference for four papers focused on cutting-edge solutions to address the climate challenge of the massive energy usage of quantum and high performance computing.
Jan 31, 2025
2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.
Nov 13, 2024
Investing in the Revolutionary Power of Quantum Computing
Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari says a quantum computing project to be launched in Holyoke, Massachusetts with a $5 million investment from the state demonstrates the increasing interest in the public and private sector in quantum computing’s potential impact on the future of computing.
Feb 01, 2024
Faculty and Staff Awards 2024
The College of Engineering recognized faculty and staff at the annual faculty and staff awards event and thanked everyone for their hard work and dedication in support of our students, college, and university during the 2023-2024 academic year. View award recipients and photo gallery.
Dec 07, 2023
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Nov 15, 2023
Computer Engineering PhD Student Wins ACM/IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
Rohan Basu Roy, PhD’24, computer engineering, won the prestigious ACM/IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship for enhancing the productivity of computational scientists and environmental sustainability of high performance computing with novel methods and tools exploiting cloud computing and on-premise HPC resources.
Jun 30, 2023
Best Paper Award at ACM HPDC 2023
Baolin Li, PhD’24, computer engineering, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at the 32nd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) for their paper on “Kairos: Building Cost-Efficient Machine Learning Inference Systems With Heterogeneous Cloud Resources.”
Dec 07, 2022
Tiwari Receives TPDS Editorial Excellence Award
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari was awarded the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) Editorial Excellence Award.
Nov 22, 2022
ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowship
Ana Veroneze Solórzano, PhD’26, computer engineering, won a prestigious 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) Computational and Data Science Fellowship.
Nov 10, 2022
Meta Award To Quarantine and Vaccinate Silent Data Corruptions
Devesh Tiwari, ECE associate professor, received a 2022 Meta Research Award among five U.S. and international scientists for his proposal to develop a quarantine and vaccination framework to mitigate silent data corruptions in large-scale systems.