Presenter

Professor Cooperman currently works in high-performance computing. He received his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1974, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1978. He came to Northeastern University in 1986, and has been a full professor there since 1992. His visiting research positions include a 5-year IDEX Chair of Attractivity at the University of Toulouse/CNRS in France, and sabbaticals at Concordia University, at CERN, and in Inria/France. In 2014, he and his student, Xin Dong, used a novel idea to semi-automatically add multi-threading support to the million-line Geant4 code coordinated out of CERN. He is one of the more than 100 co-authors on the foundational Geant4 paper, whose current citation count is 34,000. Prof. Cooperman currently leads the DMTCP project (Distributed Multi-Threaded CheckPointing) for transparent checkpointing. The project began in 2004, and has benefited from a series of PhD theses. Over 150 refereed publications cite DMTCP as having contributed to their research project.