Priya Vashishta is the Director of the Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations. He along with his other colleagues - Rajiv Kalia and Aiichiro Nakano - joined USC in September 2002. They have multidisciplinary appointments in the School of Engineering and College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Priya Vashishta was the Cray Research Professor of Computational Sciences at the Louisiana State University since 1990. He is the founding Director of the Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations at LSU. The Laboratory established a unique dual degree program where students can obtain a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences & Engineering and M.S. from the Department of Computer Science in five years. Prior to LSU, he was Senior Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory. He was the Director of the Solid State Science Division from 1979 to 1982. He has been involved in various aspects of atomistic simulations for twenty-five years. His current research interests include high performance computing and visualization to carry out very large multiscale simulations of novel materials and processes, nanoscale systems and devices, and info-Bio-Nano interface on massively parallel and distributed computers.
