Carlos A. Varela

Professor, Department of Computer Science

Founding Director, Worldwide Computing Laboratory
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA


Ph: +1 (518) 276-6912, Fax: +1 (518) 276-4033, Office: Lally 308.

Honors and Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award (nomination), Saswata Paul, AIAA/IEEE DASC, 2019
  • Cloud Credits for Research Award, Amazon AWS, 2019—2020, 2017—2018, 2016—2017, 2013—2015, 2011—2013.
  • Best Paper Award, Doctoral Symposium, Shigeru Imai, IEEE/ACM CCGrid, 2016
  • Cloud Credits for Research Award, Google, 2014—2015
  • Best Paper Award (nomination), CLEI, 2010
  • Best Paper Award (finalist), IEEE eScience, 2007
  • Best Paper Award (nomination), IEEE/ACM CCGrid, 2007
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE HPDC HPC-GECO, 2006
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2005—2010
  • Eclipse Innovation Award, IBM, 2004—2005, 2003—2004.
  • Artificial Intelligence Fellowship, UIUC Beckman Institute, 1993
  • South American Programming Contest Finalist (2nd/168 pairs), ACIS, 1991
  • Undergraduate Fellowship, University of Los Andes, Colombia, 1988—1992