Congratulations to Colin Thomas on Passing His Candidacy Exam

Colin Thomas passed his Ph.D. candidacy exam this April. We are thrilled for him, and congratulations, Colin. A lot of reading, writing, and committee prep went into getting here, and it paid off.

Colin is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame and works in our group with Prof. Douglas Thain. His research interests are distributed systems and scientific workflows on clusters. Much of his work so far has centered on Parsl and TaskVine, on how scheduling and data placement behave when workflows mix a parallel filesystem with node-local disks, and on keeping related tasks and their intermediate files together instead of shuffling everything through shared storage. With candidacy behind him, we are looking forward to the next stretch of the Ph.D. and what he will build and publish from here.

Nice work on candidacy, Colin.