Frank Dehne
Chancellor's Professor Emeritus
| Degrees: | Ph.D. Wuerzburg (1986), M.CS. RWTH Aachen (1983), BCS RWTH Aachen (1981) |
| Email: | dehne@scs.carleton.ca |
| Website: | https://carleton.ca/dehne |
Research Interests
Data science, high performance computing, parallel computing, computational biochemistry, online analytical processing
Current Research
Professor Dehne’s research program focuses on data science, AI, and parallel computing. Most of his work is interdisciplinary and collaborative. Using large scale cloud computing systems and GPUs, Prof. Dehne and his collaborators build high-performance computing systems for solving computationally hard problems in bioinformatics, business data analytics, and computational engineering. He is also co-founder of the biotech company Designed Biologics Inc. Together with his collaborators, he has published more than 180 research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings. Their work has received more than 6,000 citations. According to the Stanford-Elsevier list of the world’s most-cited scholars, Prof. Dehne ranks among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists in data science & AI.
Biography
Professor Dehne was the Founding Director of the Carleton University Institute For Data Science from 2015 to 2022, and the Director of the School of Computer Science from 2000 to 2003 and 2006 to 2008.