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Georgia Tech’s Srinivas Aluru bags 2025 Charles Babbage Award
Aluru was recognized for advancing parallel computing in genomics, enabling efficient large-scale genetic analysis.
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Srinivas Aluru / Georgia Tech
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Computer Society has awarded Georgia Tech regents professor Srinivas Aluru the 2025 Charles Babbage Award for his pioneering research in parallel computing and computational biology.
Named after mathematician Charles Babbage, who designed the first digital automatic computer, the award is presented annually to individuals who have contributed significantly to parallel computation. Aluru was recognized for his groundbreaking work in computational genomics, an area that examines the structure and function of genetic material.
Commenting on this recognition, Aluru said, “This award is a recognition of over two and a half decades of research efforts in my group, reflecting not only my work but that of numerous graduate students and collaborators. I hope the award draws attention to the importance of parallel methods in computational biology and points key advancements to new entrants in the field.
Parallel computing, a focus of Aluru’s work, allows large genomic datasets—often reaching billions of base pairs—to be broken down into smaller segments for more efficient processing. His contributions have helped advance genetic analysis in plants, animals, and microorganisms.
Aluru, who joined Georgia Tech in 2013, played a key role in establishing the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS). He served as co-executive director at its founding in 2016 and later as sole executive director from 2019 to 2025.
The researcher has held fellowships with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He was named a regents professor in 2023.
“Srinivas Aluru’s groundbreaking contributions have profoundly shaped the intersection of parallel processing and bioinformatics. His work is nothing short of extraordinary,” said Yves Robert, awards chair of the IEEE Computer Society Babbage Committee.
Aluru pursued a B.Tech in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his M.S. and Ph.D from Iowa State University.
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