Presenter

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Data Science at NJIT, where he also directs the Institute for Data Science. Formerly, he was founding Chair of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. An elected CRA Board Member, Bader is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and SIAM. He received the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award and was inducted into the University of Maryland’s Innovation Hall of Fame (2022) and the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art’s Hall of Fame (2025). In 2025, he received the Heatherington Award for Technological Innovation. The Computer History Museum honors him for developing the first Linux-based supercomputer, now the global standard. HPCwire named him one of its “35 Legends” in 2025.