Rate My Professor Ryan Grant

Dr. Ryan Grant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University. He earned his PhD from Queen’s University in 2012. Prior to joining the Smith Engineering faculty in 2021, he served as a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the United States, where he led the development of a software specification now integral to the networking hardware in the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Dr. Grant’s research focuses on cloud computing, high performance networks, low-level hardware-software interfaces, message passing, high performance computing, and power management for extreme-scale systems. He directs the Computing at Extreme Scale Advanced Research (CAESAR) laboratory at Queen’s, one of the largest supercomputing architecture labs in the world, and is also affiliated with the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles on system software. His contributions have earned him an R&D100 Award, multiple U.S. Defense Programs Awards, a Public Good Innovator Award, a Queen’s University 125th engineering alumni award, and several best paper awards. Dr. Grant holds leadership roles in technical specifications councils for systems software in networking and hyperscale datacenter power management, serves as an associate editor or guest editor for journals including IEEE Micro and Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations, chairs conferences, and participates on the steering committees for Hot Interconnects and ExaMPI. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.