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Biosketch
Alex Pothen is a
Professor of computer science at Old Dominion University and
leads the Center for Computational Science.
His research interests are in combinatorial
scientific computing, parallel computing, computational biology, and the
interaction of architecture and algorithm for high performance computing.
Alex's current professional responsibilities include:
Editor,
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing;
SIAM Series in Computational Science and Engineering;
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis;
and the
International Journal on Computational Science and Engineering.
He is co-chair of the organizing committee of
the CSC05 Workshop;
member of program committee,
International Conference on Computational
Science and Engineering
at Istanbul, Turkey June 27--30, 2005,
and member of program committee,
2004 International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).
Alex received an M.S.
in Chemistry (five year integrated B.S./M.S. program) from the Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi, India, where he was a National Science Talent Scholar,
and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. He has held
earlier academic appointments at the University of Waterloo, the University of
Wisconsin, and Penn State. He has graduated six PhD students, more than fifty
Master's students, and has advised four postdoctoral fellows. He has received an
IBM University Research Partnership award, and his papers have received several
honors.
He has been
in a multidisciplinary challenge research center funded by
the NSF, an Advanced Scientific Computing (ASCI) level-2 grant from the
Department of Energy, and has led a GAANN fellowships program supported
by the Department of Education.
Currently he leads the
CSCAPES Institute, supported by a SCIDAC
(Scientific Discovery through Advanced Scientific Computing) grant from the
Office of Science of the Department of Energy. |
