Alumni Profiles

James Phillips

  • Program Years: 1995-1999
  • Academic Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Field of Study: Physics
  • Academic Advisor: Klaus Schulten
  • Practicum(s):
    Los Alamos National Laboratory (1996)
  • Degree(s):
    Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
    M.S. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995
    B.S. Physics and Mathematics, Marquette University, 1993

Current Status

  • Status: Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois
  • Research Area: High Performance Computing
  • Personal URL: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~jim/

Comments

Ph.D. awarded December 2002.

Publications

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~jim/publications.html
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2296-3591

Awards

2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research
Rommie Amaro, University of California, San Diego; Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Laboratory; Tom Gibbs, NVIDIA; John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jim Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lillian Chong, University of Pittsburgh; Lorenzo Casalino, University of California, San Diego; Abigail Dommer, University of California, San Diego; David Hardy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julio Maia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Thorsten Kurth, NVIDIA; Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University
"AI-Driven Multiscale Simulations Illuminate Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Dynamics"

SC2002 Gordon Bell Award
James C. Phillips, Gengbin Zheng, Sameer Kumar, Laxmikant V. Kale
"NAMD: Biomolecular Simulation on Thousands of Processors"