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Distinguished Professor @NJIT, @adapter co-founder. Expert in Data Science, AI/ML, & HPC. IEEE, ACM, AAAS & SIAM Fellow.

New York, USA
Joined August 2017
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Adapter is out of stealth. 🧠 AI knows everything about the world and almost nothing about yours. We spent three and a half years fixing that — with $17.8M from GV, Bond, Hillspire and others to build a cognition layer for AI. It's a living knowledge graph of your world: deeper than any context window, cheaper to run, and sovereign to you. It never trains anyone's models. Grateful to Alex Konrad & Upstarts for the deep dive 👇 @adapter bit.ly/4ykeE9F
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Thanks to @njdotcom for including me in this important look at where New Jersey stands on AI. From Flock cameras to deepfakes to distrust of Big Tech, our leaders are wrestling with real questions about limits. NJ can lead on innovation and on responsible guardrails. bit.ly/4sMYu6v
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Truly humbled to be included in @UofMaryland’s “6 More Terp Innovations That Changed History.” My 1998 Linux supercomputer grew out of an idea developed at Maryland and the education I received there. Proud to be a Terp. bit.ly/4ztVzSN
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Honored to see Roadrunner in @UofMaryland's "6 More Terp Innovations That Changed History." In 1998 I built the first Linux supercomputer from off-the-shelf parts, an idea born in my UMD PhD days. Today every TOP500 machine runs Linux. #HPC bit.ly/4ztVzSN
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At the @NYSE today for the 2026 WLDA Summit, "Leading in the Agentic Era." Congratulations to Asha Saxena and the WLDA team on bringing together the leaders shaping how enterprises put AI agents to work. Great to see this community keep growing! #2026WLDASummit @ashasaxena101 @wlda_tech
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Congratulations to @Prof_DavidBader on being honored as a Fellow of @SigmaXiSociety for exemplary contributions to high-performance computing and graph analytics, and for service and leadership within Sigma Xi.
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Grok aims to understand the Universe. Adapter Mind understands your world. As a launch partner of the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network, Mind now gives every Grok Bot and Grok Build your tribal knowledge before the first token. bit.ly/4yyX6pi
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David Bader retweeted
Grok understands the universe. With Adapter Mind it can understand yours before the first token. Less searching, more doing. We are a proud Launch Partner of the SpaceX Super Intelligence (@SpaceXSI) Partner Network alongside some of the most inspiring names in technology 🚀
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In Annapolis for CLASSIC 2026 (formerly CLSAC). This year's theme, Complex Analytic Workflows, is where large-scale analytics needs to go: from supercomputers to cloud to the edge. Great conversations with colleagues from the labs, government, industry, and academia. #HPC
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Honored to join Gov. Sherrill and NVIDIA co-founder Chris Malachowsky today to launch the New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative: $125M+ to double supercomputing capacity across NJ's research universities. NJ has the talent. Now it has the compute. #NJSCI @NJIT
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Distinguished @Prof_DavidBader was honored with this year's Board of Directors of the Foundation Excellence in Research and Innovation Medal, NJIT's highest honor, for his pioneering contributions to high-performance computing and large-scale data. shorturl.at/83FlP
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Heading to Trenton today to testify before the NJ Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee on AI and society. My message: the real near-term AI risks are engineering, procurement, and liability problems. They're solvable, and New Jersey can lead. @NJIT
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Honored to receive the NJIT Foundation Excellence in Research and Innovation Medal yesterday at the Nexus of Excellence Awards. It belongs to my students, postdocs, and collaborators at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Thank you, @NJIT! 🏅
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Bumped into Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at Dubai Mall. Turns out we have the same taste in Oud! His Highness is well-loved by the Emiratis for building the United Arab Emirates into a tolerant and prosperous nation.
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@Prof_DavidBader , a pioneering scientist whose work helped reshape modern supercomputing and continues to expand what researchers can learn from massive, interconnected data sets, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research Award. njit.edu/boards/2026-david-b…
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Thrilled to be named @NJIT's 2026 Excellence in Research Prize and Medal recipient. Huge thanks to the students, postdocs, and collaborators who made this work possible. #HPC #GraphAnalytics #DataScience @NJITYingWu bit.ly/4xxzAIx
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In Dubai today for my keynote at IEEE CCNCPS 2026. Catching cascading failures and intrusions in cyber-physical systems means analyzing graphs with billions of edges while they are still changing. That is what Arkouda and Arachne are built for. #HPC #GraphAnalytics #CyberPhysicalSystems
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David Bader retweeted
Are you tired of constantly briefing your AI about the same people and projects? @maxthoeny calls it “the re-explain pain”: before an agent can help, he has to repeat the context and latest updates every day. He connected his Adapter Mind to his @bot so he no longer has to.
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@Prof_DavidBader, distinguished professor and founding director of the Institute for Data Science, has been named to the 2026 Class of Distinguished Contributors of the IEEE Computer Society. news.njit.edu/david-bader-na…
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Adapter Mind gives continuous understanding to your agents!
Lots of agents turn tasks into pull requests. But do they really understand what’s going on? One of our founding engineers @ponzodi built an internal bot powered by an Adapter Mind, giving it a continuous understanding of our company before he asks a question or assigns a task. adapter.com/blog/we-gave-ada…
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