FACULTY AND AFFILIATED MEMBERS
The faculty members in the Center include:
- PRITHVIRAJ BANERJEE: Director of the Center for Parallel and Distributed
Computing, and Walter P. Murphy Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interests:
- Parallel algorithms for VLSI computer-aided design applications,
- Parallelizing compilers for distributed memory multicomputers,
- Parallel architectures with emphasis on fault tolerance.
- ALVIN BAYLISS: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. New York University.
Research Interests:
- Numerical analysis
Large-scale scientific computing
- Combustion
- Computational fluid dynamics,
- Solid mechanics
- Acoustics.
- ALOK CHOUDHARY: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interests:
- High-performance computing and communications
- input-output, compiler and runtime systems for HPCC
- Multimedia systems and databases.
- SCOTT HAUCK: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
Univ. Washington.
Research Interests:
- Reconfigurable and Multi-FPGA systems
- FPGA architectures and CAD tools
- Rapid-prototyping, asynchronous circuit and VLSI design,
- Parallel processing, parallel programming languages.
- JORGE NOCEDAL: Director of the Optimization Center, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Rice University.
Research Interests:
- Nonlinear Optimization
- Applied linear algebra
- Numerical analysis
- Software development for numerical computations.
- DER-TSAI LEE: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interests:
- Design and analysis of algorithms
- Data structures
- VLSI systems
- Computational geometry
- Parallel algorithms
- Computational complexity
- Algorithm visualization.
- PETER SCHEUERMANN: Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Research Interests:
- Physical database design
- Pictorial databases
- Parallel I/O systems
- Parallel algorithms for data-intensive applications
- Distributed database systems.
- MAJID SARRAFZADEH: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interests:
- VLSI Design
- Computer-aided design
- High-performance architectural design
- Design and analysis of algorithms
- Computational complexity.
- ERIC SCHWABE: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
RESEARCH AREAS:
- Parallel algorithms and architectures
- Disk arrays
- Interconnection networks
- Algorithms.
- ALLEN TAFLOVE: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Northwestern Univ.
Research Interests:
- Applied electromagnetic field theory and applications
- Computational electromagnetics, scattering and diffraction, supercomputing
- Maxwell's equations-based computational nonlinear optics
- Electromagnetic waves in nonlinear dispersive media, femtosecond, optical switches.
- VALERIE TAYLOR: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Univ. California, Berkeley.
RESEARCH AREAS:
- Performance of parallel scientific applications
- Computer architecture
- Visual supercomputing environments.
- TED BELYTSCHKO, Walter P. Murphy Chaired Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering.
Research Interests:
- Computational solid mechanics
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Explicit finite-element programs
- Parallel versions of above applications.
- IAN FOSTER: Senior Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division,
Argonne National Lab, Ph.D. Imperial College, England.
Research Interests:
- Various aspects of parallel and distributed computing: algorithms, languages, tools;
- Techniques to integrate high-performance
computing into large-scale internetworked environments;
- Computational science efforts in developing parallel
climate models.
- WILLIAM GROPP: Senior Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division,
Argonne National Lab.
Research Interests:
- Scientific computing, particularly in algorithms and software for
adaptive and parallel methods for partial differential equations
- Development of PETSc library of numerical routines
- Development of MPI message passing interface standard and implementation.
tariq@ece.nwu.edu.