Jan F. Prins Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987 Curriculum Vitae
	Professor of Computer Science RENCI Research Fellow Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3175, USA Email: [email protected] Tel: +1-919-590-6213 Fax: +1-919-590-6111

Research

Interests

• High-performance computing: algorithms, parallel programming languages, compilers and architectures.
• Applications in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Publications

• A curated list of publications is maintained in Google Scholar
  • Publications ordered by recency
  • Publications ordered by citation count (as computed by Google Scholar)

Projects

• Transcriptome analyses from RNA-seq data
• Power and Energy reduction in HPC applications
• Previous projects: Project website Advanced Algorithms and Software for Problems in Computational Bio-Fluid Dynamics; Carolina Center for Exploratory Genetic Analysis; Mining protein-family specific amino-acid packing patterns; Irregular Parallel Algorithms: algorithmic, language, compilation, and hardware techniques for high performance execution of unstructured problems; Time-adaptive techniques for accelerating n-body simulations; Software and development for the DeltaSphere 3D Scene Digitizer with Lars Nyland at 3rdTech, Inc.; Evaluation of Unified Paralllel C (UPC) parallel programming language and compilers; Problem-solving environment for multiphase subsurface flow and transport phenomena; Parallel Computing Resource for Structural Biology: parallel algorithms and implementations for Molecular Dynamics simulations; Proteus: a language for prototyping parallel algorithms; Architecture-independent design methodology for parallel algorithms; High performance implementation of parallel algorithms; Lattice gas methods for modeling fluid flow and contaminant transport in heterogeneous multiphase systems; CAETI - Software infrastructure for distributed educational applications

Research Collaborators

• Graduate Students.
• Faculty: Jinze Liu (UKY Computer Science), Corbin Jones (Biology), Praveen Sethupathy (Genetics), Chuck Perou and Neil Hayes ( Cancer Genome Atlas Project at Lineberger Cancer Center), Bill Marzluff (Biochemistry & Biophysics), Perpetua Muganda (NCAT Biology), Casey Miller (Environmental Science and Engineering) and James McClure (VT Adv Res Comp), Lars Nyland (Nvidia)

Teaching

Course Information

• COMP 790-033 Topics in Parallel Computing (Fall 2022)
• COMP 520 Compilers (Spring 2022)
• COMP 633 Parallel Computing (Fall 2021)
• BCB 716 Sequence Analysis (Fall 2020)
• COMP 790-201 Predictive Models for High-Dimensional Data Analysis [with Joshua Welch] (Spring 2016)
• COMP 555 Bioalgorithms (Fall 2014)
• COMP 240 Advanced Compiler Design
• COMP 15 Introduction to Functional Programming
• COMP 290-33 Seminar on Parallel Algorithms