Applied Mathematics department members Manda Winlaw, Mike Hynes, and Anthony Caterini (PhD, Master’s and undergraduate students), along with their supervisor Hans De Sterck, won the best paper award (and a $2,000 cash prize!) at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015) in Melbourne, Australia, for their paper “Algorithmic Acceleration of Parallel ALS for Collaborative Filtering: Speeding up Distributed Big Data Recommendation in Spark”.
