Sundar named Ada Lovelace Associate Professor

Hari Sundar of the Department of Computer Science was recently named the Ada Lovelace Associate Professor. Sundar earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Delhi. After completing his PhD, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Oden Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a research scientist at Siemens and taught as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing before joining Tufts in 2024.  

Sundar’s research focuses on the development of computationally optimal parallel, high-performance algorithms that are efficient and scalable on state-of-the-art architectures. His work is driven by applications in biosciences, geophysics, computational fluid dynamics, and computational relativity. His research has resulted in the development of state-of-the-art distributed algorithms for adaptive mesh refinement, geometric multigrid, fast Gauss transform, and sorting.

Established in 2021 by an anonymous donor, the Ada Lovelace Professorship supports a term professorship in the Department of Computer Science within the School of Engineering over a five-year period. The fund is named for the English mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), who has been called the world’s first computer programmer for her work which demonstrated the capabilities of Charles Babbage’s “Analytical Engine”. The early programming language “Ada” was named for Lovelace, and she and fellow women pioneers in STEM are celebrated annually on Ada Lovelace Day. 

Learn more about Ada Lovelace Associate Professor Hari Sundar.