Nicholas Carriero
Senior Research Scientist of Computer Science

B.S., Brown University, 1980
M.S., The State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1983
Ph.D., Yale University, 1987
Joined Yale Faculty 1987
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Office location: AKW 209
Telephone: 203.432.1280

Nicholas Carriero's research centers on system issues in the development and deployment of software tools for parallelism.

Working with David Gelernter and the Linda group at Yale, Carriero has developed varants of C and Fortran that provide Linda's coordination model. this work hs included the C-Linda precompiler and analyzer, and support kernels for shared-memory multiprocessors. He has also directed work on tools for debugging and visualizing Linda codes

Carriero's current work includes refinement of existing implementation of the Lnda coordination model, development of new implementations, extension of the model, and exploration of parallel programming methodologies. Adaptive parallelism, distributed computing, and "non-traditional" coordination applicaitons are topics of particular emphasis.

Representative Publications
	"Adpative Parallelism and Piranha," with E. Freeman, D. Gelernter, and D. Kaminsky, IEEE Computer, 28(4), 1995
	"Coordination Languages and their Significance," with D. Gelernter, Communications of the ACM, 35(2), 1992.
	“A High-Productivity/Low-Maintenance Approach to High-Performance Computation for Biomedicine: Four Case Studies,” N. J. Carriero, M. V. Osier, K. H. Cheung, P. L. Miller, M. Gerstein, H. Zhao, B. Wu, S. Rifkin, J. Chang, H. Zhang, K. White, K. Williams, M. Schultz, in J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2005, 12: 90-98.
	“PseudoPipe: An Automated Pseudogene Identification Pipeline,” Z. Zhang, N. Carriero, D Zheng, J. Karro, P. M. Harrison, M. Gerstein , in Bioinformatics, 2006, 22: 1437-1439.
	“NetWorkSpace: A Coordination System for High-Productivity Environments,” R. Bjornson, N. Carriero, M. Schultz, P. Shields, S. Weston, in International Journal of Parallel Programming, 2009, 37(1):106-125.