Chris Carothers

Center for Computational Innovations (CCI)
Chief Scientist and Center Director

About

Chris Carothers is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interest are in massively parallel systems focusing on modeling and simulation systems of all sorts. Prof. Carothers is an NSF CAREER award winner and is currently active in the DOE Exascale Co-Design Program associated with designs for next generation exascale storage systems as well as the NSF PetaApps Program, and the Army Research Center's Mobile Network Modeling Institute

Other affiliations: Computer Science

Research

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Chris Carothers has 152 indexed publications in the subjects of Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Science.

Quantum Machine Learning for Biomedical Classification Problems: A Feasibility Study on Real Quantum Hardware
Hongbin Liu, Zhemin Zhang, Kangyu Zheng, Zhiding Liang, Chi Sheng Chen, Christopher Carothers, Juergen Hahn
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
, 2026
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Hybrid PDES Simulation of HPC Networks Using Zombie Packets
Elkin Cruz-Camacho, Kevin Brown, Xin Wang, Xiongxiao Xu, Kai Shu, Zhiling Lan, Robert B. Ross, Christopher Carothers
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
, 35
, 2025
.
Medical multimodal multitask foundation model for lung cancer screening
Chuang Niu, Qing Lyu, Christopher D. Carothers, Parisa Kaviani, Josh Tan, Pingkun Yan, Mannudeep K. Kalra, Christopher T. Whitlow, Ge Wang
Nature Communications
, 16
, 2025
.
Introduction to the Special Issue on PADS 2023
Dong Jin, Christopher Carothers
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
, 35
, 2025
, pp.1-3
.
Implementing support for Interactive and AI workloads in a traditional HPC environment
Jay McGlothlin, Christopher Carothers
Proceedings of 2025 Workshops of the International Conference on High Performance Computing Network Storage and Analysis Sc 2025 Workshops
, 2025
, pp.2146-2150
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Analyzing a Lifetime of Failures on a Cray XC40 Supercomputer
Kevin A. Brown, Tanwi Mallick, Zhiling Lan, Robert B. Ross, Christopher D. Carothers
Proceedings of Cug 2025 Cray User Group Conference
, 2025
, pp.103-114
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Synopsis: MFNetSim: A Multi-Fidelity Network Simulation Framework for Multi-Traffic Modeling of Dragonfly Systems
Xin Wang, Kevin A. Brown, Robert B. Ross, Christopher D. Carothers, Zhiling Lan
ACM Sigsim PADS 2025 Proceedings of the 39th ACM Sigsim International Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation
, 2025
, pp.120-121
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Directing PDES and Surrogate Models in Loosely Coupled Hybrid Simulations
Kevin A. Brown, Elkin Cruz-Camacho, Kazutomo Yoshii, Xin Wang, Zhiling Lan, Christopher D. Carothers, Robert B. Ross
ACM Sigsim PADS 2025 Proceedings of the 39th ACM Sigsim International Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation
, 2025
, pp.110-114
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MFNetSim: A Multi-Fidelity Network Simulation Framework for Multi-Traffic Modeling of Dragonfly Systems
Xin Wang, Kevin A. Brown, Robert B. Ross, Christopher D. Carothers, Zhiling Lan
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
, 35
, 2025
.
A Provably Effective Method for Pruning Experts in Fine-tuned Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
Mohammed Nowaz Rabbani Chowdhury, Meng Wang, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Naigang Wang, Pin Yu Chen, Christopher Carothers
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
, 235
, 2024
, pp.8815-8847
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