From 1998 to 2005, Bader was a professor and Regents' Lecturer at The University of New Mexico. In 2005, he moved to Georgia Tech, where he was a Professor and served as the first Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) from July 2014 to June 2019. In July 2019, Bader joined the New Jersey Institute of Technology as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the Ying Wu College of Computing. He has served on numerous conference program committees related to parallel processing, edited numerous journals, published numerous articles, and is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of SIAM, and Member of the ACM.