Education¶

2012	Ph.D.	Computer Science and Engineering	University of Notre Dame
2010	M.S.	Computer Science and Engineering	University of Notre Dame
2006	B.S.	Computer Science	University of Notre Dame

Experience¶

2018 - Present	Associate Teaching Professor	University of Notre Dame
2015 - 2018	Assistant Teaching Professor	University of Notre Dame
2012 - 2015	Assistant Professor	University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
2007 - 2012	Graduate Teaching Assistant	University of Notre Dame
2003 - 2005	Undergraduate Teaching Assistant	University of Notre Dame

Teaching¶

University of Notre Dame

Spring 2024	CSE 20289 Systems Programming CSE 40677 Open Source Software Development
Fall 2023	CSE 20312 Data Structures (5.0) CSE 30341 Operating System Principles (5.0)
Summer 2023	CSE 30872 Programming Challenges
Spring 2023	CSE 20289 Systems Programming (5.0)
Fall 2022	CSE 20312 Data Structures (Substitute) (5.0) CSE 30341 Operating System Principles (5.0) CSE 30872 Programming Challenges (5.0)
Summer 2022	EG 44175 Ethical and Professional Issues in Engineering
Spring 2022	CSE 20289 Systems Programming (5.0) CSE 40677 Open Source Software Development (5.0)
Fall 2021	CSE 30341 Operating System Principles (5.0) CSE 30872 Programming Challenges (5.0)
Summer 2021	CSE 34872 Programming Challenges (5.0)
Spring 2021	CSE 20289 Systems Programming (5.0) CSE 40842 Hackers in the Bazaar (5.0)
Fall 2020	CSE 30341 Operating System Principles (5.0) CSE 30872 Programming Challenges (5.0)
Summer 2020	CSE 34872 Programming Challenges (5.0)
Spring 2020	CSE 10001 Principles of Computing (4.9) CSE 20289 Systems Programming (5.0) CSE 40677 Open Source Software Development (5.0)
Fall 2019	CSE 30341 Operating System Principles (5.0) CSE 30872 Programming Challenges (5.0) CSE 40175 Ethical and Professional Issues (5.0)
Summer 2019	CSE 34872 Programming Challenges (5.0)
Spring 2019	CSE 10001 Principles of Computing (5.0) CSE 20289 Systems Programming (5.0) CSE 40842 Hackers in the Bazaar (5.0)
Fall 2018	CSE 30341 Operating System Principles (4.9) CSE 30872 Programming Challenges (5.0) CSE 40175 Ethical and Professional Issues (4.9)
Summer 2018	EG 44175 Ethical and Professional Issues in Engineering
Spring 2018	CSE 20289 Systems Programming (4.9) CSE 40175 Ethical and Professional Issues (5.0) CSE 40850 History of Computing (5.0)
Fall 2017	CSE 30341 Operating System Principles (4.8) CSE 30872 Programming Challenges (5.0) CSE 40175 Ethical and Professional Issues (5.0)
Spring 2017	CSE 20289 Systems Programming (5.0) CSE 40175 Ethical and Professional Issues (4.8) CSE 40842 Hackers in the Bazaar (4.6)
Fall 2016	CDT 30010 Elements of Computing I (4.8) CSE 30331 Data Structures (4.9) CSE 40175 Ethical and Professional Issues (4.9)
Spring 2016	CDT 30020 Script-based Programming II (4.8) CSE 20189 Basic Unix for Engineers (4.7) CSE 40175 Ethical and Professional Issues (4.7)
Fall 2015	CDT 30010 Script-based Programming I (4.9) CSE 20110 Discrete Mathematics (Assistant) CSE 30331 Data Structures (4.6)
Summer 2015	CSE 20232 C/C++ Programming (Substitute)

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Spring 2015	CS 170 Computing for the Sciences and Mathematics CS 252 Computer Systems
Fall 2014	CS 352 Computer Organization and Design CS 491 Programming Challenges
Spring 2014	CS 170 Computing for the Sciences and Mathematics CS 388 Unix Systems Programming
Fall 2013	CS 352 Computer Organization and Design IDIS 151 Demystifying Computing
Spring 2013	CS 170 Computing for the Sciences and Mathematics CS 491 Cloud Computing
Fall 2012	CS 163 Introduction to Programming in C++ CS 352 Computer Organization and Design

University of Notre Dame

Summer 2011	Boeing Academic Excellence Workshop - Introduction to Computer Science CSE 20232 C/C++ Programming (Substitute)
Fall 2010	CSE 40166 Computer Graphics (4.3)
Summer 2010	CSE 20232 C/C++ Programming (Substitute)
Fall 2009	CSE 40872 Programming Challenges and Problem Solving (4.8)
Spring 2009	CSE 20221 Logic Design and Sequential Circuits (Teaching Assistant)
Spring 2008	CSE 20221 Logic Design and Sequential Circuits (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2008	CSE 40881 Extreme Computing: Parallel CPU Programming (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2007	CSE 30321 Computer Architecture I (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2005	CSE 30331 Data Structures (Teaching Assistant)
Spring 2005	CSE 20212 Fundamentals of Computing II (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2004	CSE 20211 Fundamentals of Computing I (Teaching Assistant)
Spring 2004	EG 10111 Introduction to Engineering II (Peer Mentor)
Fall 2003	EG 10110 Introduction to Engineering I (Peer Mentor)

Research¶

Publications¶

2015	Chris Johnson and Peter Bui. Blocks In, Blocks Out: A Language for 3D Models. Blocks and Beyond (BLOCKS2015). Atlanta, GA. October, 2015. Grant Wuerker and Peter Bui. Obelisk: Summoning Minions on a HPC Cluster . Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2015). Grand Forks, ND. April, 2015. Lucas Novoa, Charles Volzka, and Peter Bui. WIDLE: A Web Based Linux Interface. Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2015). Grand Forks, ND. April, 2015. Awarded Second Place.
2014	Robert Fisher, John Fisher, and Peter Bui. Dark Nebula: Using the Cloud to Build a RESTful Web Service. Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2014). Verona, WI. April, 2014. Awarded Third Place. John Rankin, Travis Boettcher, and Peter Bui. A Web Portal For An Animation Render Farm. Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2014). Verona, WI. April, 2014.
2013	Peter Bui, Travis Boettcher, Nicholas Jaeger, and Jeffrey Westphal. Using Clusters in Undergraduate Research: Distributed Animation Rendering, Photo Processing, and Image Transcoding. IEEE Cluster (CLUSTER2013). Indianapolis, IN. September, 2013. Awarded Best Paper in Education, Outreach, and Training track. Nicholas Jaeger and Peter Bui. To the Cloud and Back: A Distributed Photo Pipeline. Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2013). La Crosse, WI. April, 2013. Awarded Third Place. Jeffrey Westphal and Peter Bui. Scalable Distributed Image Transcoding using Python-WorkQueue. Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2013). La Crosse, WI. April, 2013.
2012	Michael Albrecht, Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, and Douglas Thain. Makeflow: A Portable Abstraction for Data Intensive Computing on Clusters, Clouds, and Grids. Software: Practice and Experience (SPE). November, 2012. Irena Lanc, Peter Bui, Douglas Thain, and Scott Emrich. Adapting Bioinformatics Applications for Heterogeneous Systems: A Case Study. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE). September, 2012. Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Patrick Flynn, and Douglas Thain. ROARS: A Robust Object Archival System for Data Intensive Scientific Computing. Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer (DPD). August, 2012. Peter Bui. A Compiler Toolchain for Data Intensive Scientific Workflows. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame (UND). University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN. June, 2012. Michael Albrecht, Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, and Douglas Thain. Makeflow: A Portable Abstraction for Data Intensive Computing on Clusters, Clouds, and Grids. Workshop on Scalable Workflow Enactment Engines and Technologies at ACM SIGMOD (SWEET2012). Scottsdale, Arizona. May, 2012. Douglas Thain, Michael Albrecht, Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Rory Carmichael, Scott Emrich, and Patrick Flynn. Data Intensive Computing with Clustered Chirp Servers. Data Intensive Distributed Computing: Challenges and Solutions for Large-scale Information Management, IGI Global, Chapter 6 (IGIGLOBAL). May, 2012.
2011	Peter Bui, Dinesh Rajan, Badi Abdul-Wahid, Jesus Izaguirre, and Douglas Thain. Work Queue + Python: A Framework For Scalable Scientific Ensemble Applications. Workshop on Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing at Supercomputing (PYHPC2011). Seattle, WA. November, 2011. Peter Bui, Li Yu, Andrew Thrasher, Rory Carmichael, Irena Lanc, Patrick Donnelly, and Douglas Thain. Scripting distributed scientific workflows using Weaver. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE). November, 2011. Irena Lanc, Peter Bui, Douglas Thain, and Scott Emrich. Adapting Bioinformatics Applications for Heterogeneous Systems: A Case Study. Workshop on Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences (ECMLS2011). San Jose, CA. June, 2011. Michael Albrecht, Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, and Douglas Thain. Makeflow: A Portable Abstraction for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing.. Technical Report. University of Notre Dame (UND). University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN. February, 2011.
2010	Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, and Douglas Thain. Attaching Cloud Storage to a Campus Grid Using Parrot, Chirp, and Hadoop. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CLOUDCOM2010). Indianapolis, IN. November, 2010. Andrew Thrasher, Rory Carmichael, Peter Bui, Li Yu, Douglas Thain, and Scott Emrich. Taming Complex Bioinformatics Workflows with Weaver, Makeflow, and Starch. Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS2010). New Orleans, LA. November, 2010. Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Patrick Flynn, and Douglas Thain. ROARS: A Scalable Repository for Data Intensive Scientific Computing. Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing at ACM HPDC (DIDC2010). Chicago, IL. June, 2010. Peter Bui, Li Yu, and Douglas Thain. Weaver: Integrating Distributed Computing Abstractions into Scientific Workflows using Python. Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments at ACM HPDC (CLADE2010). Chicago, IL. June, 2010.
2009	Peter Bui. AIR: Accelerated Image Registration. Master's Thesis. University of Notre Dame (UND). University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN. November, 2009. Peter Bui and Jay Brockman. Performance Analysis of Accelerated Image Registration using GPGPU. Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU2). Washington, DC. March, 2009.

Presentations¶

2019	Peter Bui. Python Bootcamp. Workshop. Computing Research Experiences for Teachers (NDRET2019). Notre Dame, IN. July, 2019.
2018	Aaron Dingler and Peter Bui. Using WorkQueue to Teach Distributed Computing. Tutorial. Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - Northwestern Conference (CCSCNW2018). Bothell, Washington. October, 2018.
2017	Peter Bui. Slacking and Hacking: A Life Inspired by Computer Science. Invited Talk. Society of Women Engineers - Saint Mary's College (SMCSWE2017). Notre Dame, IN. October, 2017. Peter Bui. Python Bootcamp. Workshop. Computing Research Experiences for Teachers (NDRET2017). Notre Dame, IN. July, 2017. Aaron Dingler and Peter Bui. Teaching Distributed Computing with WorkQueue. Workshop. Special Interest Group - Computer Science Education (SIGCSE2017). Seattle, WA. March, 2017.
2016	Chris Johnson, Heather Amthauer, Ryan Hardt, and Peter Bui. Mixing Code and 3D Printers with Madeup. Workshop. Special Interest Group - Computer Science Education (SIGCSE2016). Memphis, TN. March, 2016.
2015	Chris Johnson and Peter Bui. Madeup: A Language for Making Things Up. Poster. Special Interest Group - Computer Science Education (SIGCSE2015). Kansas City, Missouri. March, 2015. Lucas Novoa, Charles Volzka, and Peter Bui. WIDLE: A Web Based Linux Interface. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2015). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. May, 2015. Grant Wuerker and Peter Bui. Obelisk: Summoning Minions on a HPC Cluster. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2015). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. May, 2015. John Stupka and Peter Bui. Monitoring, Analyzing, and Visualizing Distributed Computing Clusters. Poster. Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2015). Grand Forks, ND. April, 2015. Haley Muotka, Trey Zahradka, and Peter Bui. SnakeWrangler. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2015). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. May, 2015. Matthew Kennedy and Peter Bui. Integration of atmospheric sensors into Unmanned Aerial Vehicle platforms. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2015). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. May, 2015. Peter Bui and Chris Johnson. Madeup: A Language for Making Things Up. Poster. Special Interest Group - Computer Science Education (SIGCSE2015). Kansas City, Missouri. March, 2015.
2014	Zach Zens, Hyoki Lee, Kim Pierson, and Peter Bui. Integrating MAVLink with LABView: An Arduino-based Autonomous Robotics Platform. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2014). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. May, 2014. Justin Feiock, Corey Feiock, Nicholas Hasz, and Peter Bui. Social Gaming with Chromecast. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2014). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. May, 2014. John Rankin, Travis Boettcher, and Peter Bui. A Web Portal For An Animation Render Farm. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2014). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. May, 2014. John Fisher, Robert Fisher, and Peter Bui. Dark Nebula: Using the Cloud to Build a RESTful Web Service. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2014). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. May, 2014. Justin Feiock, Corey Feiock, Nicholas Hasz, and Peter Bui. Social Gaming with Chromecast. Demo. Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2014). Verona, WI. April, 2014.
2013	Peter Bui. Scientific, Distributed, Cloud Computing. Talk. Student Association of Computing Machinery (SACM2013). Eau Claire, WI. December, 2013. Peter Bui. Work Queue: A Master/Worker Framework for PDC Education and Research. Poster. Broader Engagement and HPC Educators Program at Supercomputing (HPCED2013). Denver, CO. November, 2013. Peter Bui. Using Work Queue Inside and Outside the Classroom. Talk. Cooperative Computing Lab Workshop (CCL2013). University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN. October, 2013. Peter Bui. Using HTCondor for Teaching and Research at UWEC. Talk. HTCondor Week (CONDOR2013). University of Wisconsin - Madison. Madison, WI. May, 2013. James Felton, Adam Al-Ibrahim, Peter Bui, and Chris Johnson. Buster: Distributed Graphical Visualizations on a Budget-minded Cluster. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2013). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. April, 2013. Jeffrey Westphal and Peter Bui. Scalable Distributed Image Transcoding using Python-WorkQueue. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2013). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. April, 2013. Nicholas Goble, Cameron Bjorklund, and Peter Bui. Media Server Portal. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2013). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. April, 2013. Nicholas Jaeger and Peter Bui. Collaborating Graphical Evidence: Distributed Photo Processing. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2013). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. April, 2013. Nicholas Jaeger, Trey Zahradka, and Peter Bui. A Music Filled Flask: Real Time Distributed Transcoding. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2013). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. April, 2013. Travis Boettcher and Peter Bui. Using Distributed Computing to Decrease Render Times. Poster. Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA2013). University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI. April, 2013. James Felton, Adam Al-Ibrahim, Peter Bui, and Chris Johnson. Distributed Graphical Visualizations on a Bramble of Raspberry Pis. Demo. Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS2013). La Crosse, WI. April, 2013.
2012	Peter Bui. A Compiler Toolchain for Workflows. Talk. Cooperative Computing Lab Workshop (CCL2012). University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN. June, 2012. Peter Bui. Compiling and Linking Workflows. Talk. HTCondor Week (CONDOR2012). University of Wisconsin - Madison. Madison, WI. May, 2012.
2010	Peter Bui and Douglas Thain. Weaver: Simple Distributed Scientific Programming. Poster. Computer Science and Engineering Student Research Symposium (CSE2010). University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN. November, 2010. Peter Bui and Li Yu. Work Queue: A Scalable Master/Worker Framework. Poster. Cooperative Computing Lab Tutorial (CCL2010). University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN. June, 2010. Peter Bui. Weaving Abstractions into Workflows. Poster. HTCondor Week (CONDOR2010). University of Wisconsin - Madison. Madison, WI. May, 2010. Peter Bui and Douglas Thain. Weaver: Simple Distributed Scientific Programming. Poster. Cyberinfrastructure Days (CIDAYS2010). University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN. April, 2010.

Grants¶

2014	Monitoring, Analyzing, and Visualizing Distributed Computing Clusters. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Deploying and Managing DSABR: A Distributed System for Automated Blender Rendering. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. WIDLE: Web-based Interactive Development and Learning Environment. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. SnakeWrangler: A Multi-User IPython Notebook Management System. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. GeoSpatial Education Initiative. UW System Growth Agenda - Institutional Change Grant.
2013	A High-Performance Supercomputer Cluster for UW-Eau Claire. Blugold Commitment Differential Tuition. HPC Educator's Program. Supercomputing 2013. Web Assets Delivery Server. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Automated Drag and Drop Blog Generation. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Enhancing and Extending DSABR: A Distributed System for Automated Blender Rendering. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
2012	Amazon Educational Grant. Amazon Web Services. HPC Educator's Program. Supercomputing 2012. LittleFe Buildout. Supercomputing 2012. Buster: A Budget-minded Cluster. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Collaborative Animation Rendering System. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

Honors and Awards¶

2022	Outstanding Teaching Award (Computer Science and Engineering)	University of Notre Dame
2021	Edmund P. Joyce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching	University of Notre Dame
2017	College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award	University of Notre Dame
2017	Frank O'Malley Teaching Award	University of Notre Dame
2016	Outstanding Teaching Award (Computer Science and Engineering)	University of Notre Dame
2010 - 2012	GAANN Fellowship	US Department of Education
2011	Computer Science Engineering Student Poster Award	University of Notre Dame
2006 - 2010	Schmitt Fellowship	Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation
2006	Outstanding Computer Science Undergraduate	University of Notre Dame
2006	Summa Cum Laude	University of Notre Dame

Service¶

Undergraduate Research/Independent Study¶

2022	Paul Gierl.
2018	Michael Eisemann.
2015	Charles Volzka, Grant Wuerker, Haley Muotka, John Stupka, Lucas Novoa, Matt Kennedy, Trey Zahradka.
2014	Ben Singer, Chris Haynes, Corey Feiock, Hyoki Lee, John Fisher, John Rankin, Justin Feiock, Nate Carr, Nicholas Hasz, Robert Fisher, Travis Boettcher, Zach Zens.
2013	Adam Al-Ibrahim, Cameron Bjorklund, Corey Feiock, James Felton, Jeffrey Westphal, Mitchell Wood, Natalie Wolf, Nicholas Goble, Nicholas Hasz, Nicholas Jaeger, Travis Bischell, Travis Boettcher.

Advising¶

2012 - 2015	Computer Science Advisor.	University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Winter 2012	Transfer transcript analysis.	University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Winter 2012	Winter Interim Advising Workshop.	University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Organizations¶

2015 - Present	Notre Dame Linux Users Group.	Faculty Advisor
2013 - 2015	University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Student ACM.	Faculty Advisor
2013 - 2014	University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Linux Users Group.	Faculty Advisor
2005 - 2006	Notre Dame Linux Users Group.	President

Department¶

2018 - Present	Undergraduate Computing Resources Committee.
2017 - Present	Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
2021 - 2022	Faculty Search Committee.
2016 - 2020	Faculty Search Committee.

College¶

2018 - 2020

College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award Committee.

University¶

2022 - 2023	University Faculty Fellow.
2018, 2021	Building Bridges.

Program Committee¶

2013	International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID). The Computer Journal (COMPJ). IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData).
2012	Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware (CIGPU).
2010	Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware (CIGPU).