Jason Poovey
Researcher in Data Analytics and Computer Architecture; High Performance Computing Developer
My Interests and Expertise
My expertise spans from designing novel computer architectures to developing high performance backend algorithms to developing usable web tools to interact with and analyze data. I have been an active developer of STINGER, an open-source graph platform for analysis of massive streaming graphs. My prior work has focused on solving problems ranging from multi-level cache coherency, novel memory architectures, workload characterization, streaming data analytics, graph algorithms, processing near memory, and social media analysis.
Education
Ph.D. (in progress) in Computer Science
ABDGeorgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Computer Engineering
2007-2009North Carolina State University
B.S. in Computer Engineering
2003-2007North Carolina State University
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
2003-2007North Carolina State University
Academic Awards
Engineering Dean's Scholarship
Dean's Fellowship
GSA University Wide
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Invited Talks/Conference Presentations
NASA Langley
Big Data Analytics Seminar2014
IEEE MASCOTS
2012Presented work on accelerating cycle accurate simulation of parallel workloads
HotPar
2011Presented work on detecting parallel patterns of workloads using architectural characteristics
Public Grants/Contracts
NEXTCACHE, DARPA-BAA-12-64
2013-2014DARPA seedling to study processing in memory controller (PIMC) techniques for accelerating data-irregular workloads such as large graphs
Employment
Research Scientist II
10/2012 - PresentGeorgia Tech Research Institute
Researcher in the Information and Communication Lab in the Innovative Computing Division. Research Focus has been on research in big data analytics, parallel computing, and application specific novel architecture design. Also play an active role in business development, briefing potential customers and writing proposals and white papers. Technical lead of the graph analytics component of the BlackForest application that uses STINGER.
Software Developer
athenahealth03/2012 - 10/2012
Developer on the Advanced Reporting team writing Perl code and SQL queries to enhance the reporting infrastructure within AthenaNet
Graduate Research Assistant
05/2009 - 03/2012Georgia Tech College of Computing
Research focus was on Parallel Pattern Detection to inform micro-architectural improvements and perform workload characterization. Also worked with other researchers on scalable cache coherence, efficient cycle accurate simulation techniques, and novel memory architectures.
Graduate Intern
Summer 2008Intel Corp.
Developed an assembler from scratch for the Ct project; Defined the assembly language and interfaced with existing tools for Ct/Larabee (now released as the Intel Phi).
Research Assistant
2006 - 2009NC State Computer Engineering Department
Worked on a project to characterize an embedded benchmark suite (EEMBC); Worked in a team of graduate students assisting with publications and research in the field of computer architecture. Projects focused on opcode minimization techniques for a configurable architecture and on complex hardware prefetchers.
Skills and Expertise
C++
C
Parallel Programming (OpenMP, MPI, Pthreads, TBB)
Python
R
Perl
Javascript
NodeJS
AngularJS
Java
SQL
MongoDB
Flex and Bison
Technical Writing
Graph Algorithms
Data Analytics
Teaching Expertise
Computer Architecture - beginning to doctoral level
Introductory Programming - any high level language or assembly
Advanced Programming - C, C++, Python, Parallel Programming
Simulation and Modeling
Compiler Design/Optimization
Teaching Experience
Georgia Institute of Technology
2015Adjunct Lecturer – “ECE6101: Advanced Parallel and Distributed Computer Architecture”
Lead instructor of the second-level graduate course in computer architecture. Topics discussed include microarchitecture design of shared memory multiprocessors ranging from buses and directories; cache coherence protocol design and verification; parallel programming with OpenMP; transactional memory; and GPGPU architectures.
Emory University
2014Adjunct Lecturer – “CS170: Introduction to Computer Science”
Lead instructor of freshman level Computer Science course based in Java
Georgia Institute of Technology
2012-2013Teaching Assistant/Lecturer – “CS6290: High Performance Computer Architecture”
Graduate Level course in Computer Architecture
North Carolina State University
2006-2009Adjunct Lecturer/Head Teaching Assistant – “ECE 109: Introduction to Computing Systems”
Freshman level course in Computer Architecture. Covers material from binary, logic gates, transistors, and basic assembly.
Publications
- D. Appling, E. Briscoe, D. Ediger, J. Poovey, R. McColl “Deriving Disaster-Related Information from Social Media.” KDD-LESI 2014
- D. Ediger, D. Appling, E. Briscoe, R. McColl, J. Poovey “Real-Time Streaming Intelligence: Integrating Graph and NLP Analytics.” HPEC, 2014
- R. McColl, D. Ediger, J. Poovey, D. Campbell, and D.A. Bader “A Brief Study of Open Source Graph Databases,” ArXiv e-prints. cs.DB 1309.2675. September, 2013.
- J. G. Beu, J.A. Poovey, E.R. Hein, T.M. Conte, “High-Speed Formal Verification of Heterogeneous Coherence Hierarchies,” HPCA 2013.
- P. D. Bryan, J. A. Poovey, J. G. Beu and T. M. Conte, “Accelerating Multi-threaded Application Simulation Through Barrier-Interval Time- Parallelism,” Proceedings of the IEEE 20th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'12), (Washington, D.C), Aug., 2012.
- R. A. Bheda, J. A. Poovey, J. G. Beu and T.M. Conte, "Energy Efficient Phase Change Memory Based Main Memory for Future High Performance Systems," Proceedings of the 2nd International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'11), Orlando, Florida, July 25-28, 2011.
- J. A. Poovey, B. P. Railing and T. M. Conte, “Parallel pattern detection for architectural improvements,” Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar), (Berkeley, CA), May 26–27, 2011.
- Jason A. Poovey, Thomas M. Conte, Markus Levy, Shay Gal-On, "A Benchmark Characterization of the EEMBC Benchmark Suite," IEEE Micro, pp. 18-29, September/October, 2009
- Balaji V. Iyer, Jason A. Poovey and Thomas M. Conte, "Energy-Aware Opcode Design," 23rd International Conference on Computer Design, Lake Tahoe, CA, 2008
- Jason A. Poovey, “Characterization of the EEMBC Benchmark Suite,” Technical Report, EEMBC, 2007. Published on EEMBC website at http://www.eembc.org/benchmark/characterization.pdf