February 2, 2006

Ma Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Ma (Photo: submitted)

Dr. Xiaosong Ma, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective March 1, 2006. The Career award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $400,000 in funding over the next five years. Ma will use the funding to support her research project, “Career: Transparent, Interactive Desktop Parallel Computing for Scientific Data Processing.” The aim of the research is to develop a novel desktop parallel computing framework to speed up scientific data processing tasks routinely executed on desktop machines. It will allow users to preserve the interactiveness and convenience of desktop processing, without explicit resource request or waiting for batch execution, while their computation is seamlessly accelerated by aggregating idle computing and storage resources in local-area networks.

In conjunction with the research component of the project, Ma has developed an education plan that aims to enhance the parallel computing curriculum and promote the participation of female students in computer systems research.

Ma joined the College of Engineering in 2003. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003.

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