Srinivas Aluru

Srinivas Aluru is a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and co-executive director for the Georgia Tech Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Data Engineering and Science. His main areas of research are high performance computing, data science, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial methods in scientific computing, and string algorithms. Aluru is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is best known for his research contributions in parallel algorithms and applications, interdisciplinary research in bioinformatics and computational biology, and particularly the intersection of these two fields.

Education Aluru completed his B.Tech. in computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in the year 1989. He then received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science in 1991 and 1994, both from Iowa State University. His doctoral thesis was "Distribution-independent hierarchical N-body methods”.

An early pioneer in big data, Aluru led one of the eight inaugural mid-scale NSF-NIH Big Data projects awarded in the first round of federal big data investments in 2012. He has contributed to NITRD and OSTP led white house workshops, and NSF and DOE led efforts to create and nurture big data research. He led the efforts to create the NSF South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub, that nurtures big data partnerships between organizations in the 16 U.S. Southern States and Washington, D.C.

Awards AAAS Fellow, "for distinguished contributions to high performance computational biology, particularly for enabling large-scale genome analysis and systems biology through creation and application of novel parallel methods." (2010) IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to computational biology." (2010) SIAM Fellow, "for contributions to sequential and parallel discrete algorithms in computational genomics, and leadership in data science and engineering." (2020) IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, "for pioneering contributions to the field of Parallel Computational Biology." (2025)

Selected publications