Assoc ProfessorAlexey Lastovetsky

Alexey Lastovetsky earned an MSc in 1980 and a PhD in 1986 from the Moscow Aviation Institute. He was later awarded the Doctor of Sciences degree (habilitation) from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997. His main research interests include high performance heterogeneous computing and energy efficient computing. He has published over 200 technical papers in refereed journals, edited books, and international conferences. He authored the monographs "Parallel computing on heterogeneous networks" (Wiley, 2003) and "High performance heterogeneous computing" (with J. Dongarra, Wiley, 2009). He has supervised to completion 24 PhD students. He helped organize in various capacities over 300 international conferences. He has won over a dozen individual research grants, including four prestigious Science Foundation Ireland Investigator awards, of a total value of more than 4.5 million euro. He is a ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar - Lifetime (ranked within the top 0.05% of all scholars in Parallel Computing). He is in the Stanford/Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists list since its introduction in 2020. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD). At UCD, he is also the founding Director of the Heterogeneous Computing Laboratory (http://hcl.ucd.ie/), which has established as one of the world's research leaders in the field of high-performance heterogeneous computing.