Ian Lumsden
Graduate Research Assistant
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Lumsden is a PhD candidate and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Tennessee’s Global Computing Lab, specializing in I/O, data movement, and performance optimization for large-scale scientific workflows. Over nine years of experience includes repeated summer internships at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he contributed to and extended production tools like Caliper, Thicket, Hatchet, DYAD, Benchpark, and Flux, and achieved measurable gains such as a 4.85x I/O throughput improvement for the iPIC3D application. He blends systems research with practical engineering—building Kubernetes benchmarking infrastructure, Python bindings, and graph-based analysis features—so his work not only characterizes performance but also delivers usable tooling. A member of IEEE and ACM, Ian brings both rigorous academic methods and hands-on tool development to optimize data movement across complex storage hierarchies.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma General Education, High School Diploma General Education at Oak Ridge High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
French, English
Github Skills (88)
benchmark10
python10
windows10
multiple-versions10
instrumentation10
indexed10
perf10
cpp10
trace10
scientific-computing10
linux10
hpc-applications10
flamegraph10
benchmarking10
caliper10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mcvine/McVineGPU
May 2018 - Dec 2018
A repo for storing my proof-of-concept tests for adding GPU acceleration to McVine
Contributions:12 PRs, 113 pushes, 21 branches in 7 months
gpu-accelerationgpustoringaccelerationproof-of-concept
ilumsden/COSC360
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:225 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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