Deputy Director
Researcher in Cores 1 and 3
Computer Science
Phone: 979-845-8872
Email: rwerger@tamu.edu
Webpage: https://parasol.tamu.edu/people/rwerger/
Lawrence Rauchwerger is a researcher in Cores 1 and 3 at the Institute and a professor of computer science in the Department of Computer Science, Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M. A diploma in electronic engineering from Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest, Romania, began Rauchwerger’s formal education. He later earned a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and completed his educational preparation with a doctorate in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995.
He was awarded a graduate fellowship from Intel during his advanced studies. Rauchwerger conducted research in the field of computer science in several capacities before coming to Texas A&M. He was a visiting scientist at AT&T Research Laboratories in 1996, and a visiting assistant professor in the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois from 1995-1996. Rauchwerger’s work has earned several acknowledgments in the computer science and computer engineering fields. He was awarded the NASA (Langley) High Performance Computing Consortium (HPCC) Graduate Fellowship, an Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship, the IBM Faculty Award (in 2007 and 2008), a Texas Engineering Experiment Station Select Young Faculty Award, an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, and a Texas Engineering Experiment Station Fellow Award. Rauchwerger has also been elected to the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).