James Fairbanks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Bio
James Fairbanks, Ph.D., earned his B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Florida and his Ph.D at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Computational Science and Engineering. He studied under the supervision of Professor David A. Bader, while supported by the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
He then worked at the Georgia Tech Research Institute on Data Analysis and High Performance Computing as applied to scientific computing and data science problems in healthcare. social science, epidemiology, biology, and physics problems. His work focuses on using programming language theory and algebraic techniques for designing and developing large scale software for technical computing problems.
Primary Research Area
Programming Languages
Research Areas
Concurrency, Parallelism and High-Performance Computing, Database, Data Science and Informatics, Programming Languages
Education
Ph.D. Computational Science & Engineering, 2016, Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. Mathematics, 2012, University of Florida
Research Interests
Programming Languages, Scientific Computing and Data Science, Graph Algorithms & Analytics, and Numerical Methods
Publications
See full list here.
Awards & Distinctions
- DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2020
- ODNI XAMINE Challenge Winner, 2018
- NDSEG Fellowship, 2013
- Presidential Fellowship for Graduate Study at Georgia Tech, 2012
- University Scholar at the University of Florida, 2011