Board of Advisors
Vipin Chaudhary
Senior Director of Advanced Development
Cradle Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Chaudhary is the Senior Director of Advanced Development at Cradle Technologies, Inc. where he is responsible for advanced programming tools and architecture for multi-processor chips. He is also an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and the Director of Institute for Scientific Computing at Wayne State University. From January 2000 to February 2001, he was with Corio, Inc. where he has held various technical and senior management positions, finally as the Chief Architect. He was responsible for the design and development of the Corio Intelligent Infrastructure (hosting architecture) that included disaster recovery, high availability, backup, multi-tenancy, security, monitoring, storage, etc. From January 1992 to May 1992, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Computer and Vision Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.

Vipin Chaudhary received the B.Tech. (Hons.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1986, where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for academic excellence, and the MS degree in Computer Science, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, in 1989 and 1992, respectively.

Dr. Chaudhary is known for his pioneering work in the area of parallel and distributed computing – parallelizing compilers, scheduling, distributed shared memory, automatic parallelization environments, etc. He has published over 50 peer reviewed papers in the broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, image processing, security, and scientific computing. He has served on program committees of numerous international conferences in the above areas. He received the Research Initiation Award from National Science Foundation in 1993 and his research has been funded by NSF, Army Research Labs., Cray Research, Inc., IBM, and Ford. He is on Technical Advisory Boards of several companies including Omegaband, GotProgrammers, and OpalSoft .