| Guy Blelloch | |
| Fields: | Computer science |
| Workplaces: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma Mater: | Swarthmore College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Charles E. Leiserson |
| Doctoral Students: | Virginia Vassilevska Williams |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~blelloch/papers/Ble90.pdf |
| Thesis Title: | Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing |
| Thesis Year: | 1988 |
| Awards: | ACM Fellow IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award |
Guy Edward Blelloch is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.[1] He is known for his work in parallel algorithms.
Blelloch went to Swarthmore College and graduated in 1983 with a BA in Physics and BS in Engineering. He then pursued a PhD in Computer Science at MIT and was advised by Charles E. Leiserson. He graduated in 1988 with a dissertation titled Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing.[2]
Blelloch joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1988 and has taught courses on parallel algorithms and data structures.[3] From 2016 to 2020, he was also the associate dean of undergraduate studies.
Blelloch was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2011.[4]
He was the recipient of 2021 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award in recognition of "contributions to parallel programming, parallel algorithms, and the interface between them".[5]
He was the recipient of the 2023 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for "contributions to algorithm engineering, including the Ligra, GBBS, and Aspen frameworks which revolutionized large-scale graph processing on shared-memory machines".[6]