Dr. Karki has been awarded the NSF CAREER Award on his project entitled, "Rheology of materials of Earth's mantle: High-end computational/visualization research and education." This is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for new faculty members. Dr. Karki, a graduate scholar from the University of Edinburgh, joined the department of Computer Science at LSU in Spring 2003. He is a leading scientist in high-end computation and visualization for fundamental materials problems of Earth Science applications. He has already published more than 25 journal papers in this area.