Invited Speakers

Satoshi Matsuoka

Professor of Computer Science Tokyo Institute of Technology

Satoshi Matsuoka received his Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He became a full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech / Titech) in April 2001, leading the Research Infrastructure Division Solving Environment Group of the Titech campus.

He has pioneered grid computing research in Japan the mid 90s along with his collaborators, and currently serves as sub-leader of the Japanese National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) project, that aim to create middleware for next-generation CyberScience Infrastructure. He was also the technical leader in the construction of the TSUBAME supercomputer, which has become the fast supercomputer in Asia-Pacific in June, 2006 at 85 Teraflops (peak, now 111 Teraflops as of March 2009) and 38.18 Teraflops (Linpack, 7th on the June 2006 list) and also serves as the core grid resource in the Titech Campus Grid.

He has been (co-) program and general chairs of several international conferences including ACM OOPSLA'2002, IEEE CCGrid 2003, HPCAsia 2004, Grid 2006, CCGrid 2006/2007/2008, as well as countless program committee positions, in particular numerous ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC) technical papers committee duties including serving as the network area chair for SC2004, SC2008, and was the technical papers chair for SC2009, and will be the Communities Program Chair for SC2011. He served as a Steering Group member and an Area Director of the Global Grid Forum during 1999-2005, and recently became the steering group member of the Supercomputing Conference.

He has won several awards including the Sakai award for research excellence from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 1999, and recently received the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2006 from his Royal Highness Prince Akishinomiya.

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Vladimir Voevodin

Deputy Director, Research Computing Center, Moscow State University

Vladimir Voevodin is a Deputy Director on Science in Research Computing Center of the Moscow State University.

Vladimir Voevodin received a Master degree in Applied Mathematics and Programming from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1984, his PhD in System Programming from MSU in 1989, his Doctor of Sciences degree in 1997. In 2003 he was elected as a Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences.

He specializes in parallel computing, supercomputing technologies, parallelization methods and techniques, parallel programming tools and systems, computer architectures, optimization and fine tuning of parallel applications, analysis of structure of algorithms and programs. He is an author of more than 70 scientific papers and 4 books. He is an Editorial Board Chairman of the Russian magazine “Supercomputers” and a general chair of the two major supercomputing conferences in Russia. He is a leader of many national supercomputing projects: “Parallel.ru”, Top50 of the most powerful supercomputers of CIS, presidential project “Supercomputing Education” and others.

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Bill Tang

Chief Scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

William Tang is the Chief Scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the national laboratory for fusion research. He is also the Associate Director for the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) which was recently established at Princeton University to stimulate progress in innovative computational science via interdisciplinary alliances involving computer science, applied mathematics, and prominent applications areas in the physical sciences and engineering disciplines. In October, 2006, the Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA (CIE-USA), the oldest and most widely recognized Chinese-American Professional Society in North America, presented him its Distinguished Achievement Award "for his outstanding leadership in fusion research and contributions to fundamentals of plasma science."

After receiving a PhD. in Physics from the University of California, Davis in 1972 with dissertation research carried out at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he advanced to the Principal Research Physicist rank at PPPL and Lecturer with Rank of Professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences by 1979 and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society at that time. He successfully served as Head of the PPPL Theory Department, generally recognized as the premier plasma science theory group in the world, from 1992 through 2004. Under his leadership, theoretical research at PPPL was diversified into non-fusion areas -- especially high-performance computing activities. He played a prominent leadership role for the Department of Energy's development multi-disciplinary program in advanced computational science, SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing). He is currently the Director of the Plasma Science Advanced Computing Institute for DOE's Fusion Energy Sciences Program.

In research activities, he is internationally recognized for his leading role in developing the requisite kinetic formalism as well as the associated computational applications dealing with electromagnetic plasma behavior in complex geometries. He has over 200 publications (including more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Phys. Rev. Letters, Physics of Plasmas, etc.) and has presented more than 40 invited talks at major conferences and prominent venues. He has contributed strongly to teaching and research training in Princeton University's Department of Astrophysical Sciences for over 20 years and has supervised numerous successful Ph.D. students, who have gone on to highly productive scientific careers. Examples include recipients of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in November, 2000 and in June, 2005.

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Peter Coveney

Director of the Centre for Computational Science, University College London

Peter Coveney was a Senior Scientist at Schlumberger Cambridge Research before moving to the Department in January 1999. He graduated in Chemistry at Oxford where he also read for his D Phil (1985) and held a number of research and academic positions in both chemistry and physics departments before moving to Schlumberger. In addition to his chemistry qualifications he is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a member of the Physics College of the EPSRC. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, an Associate of the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences at the American University of Beirut, and an Associate of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomedical Materials at Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London).

Peter Coveney's group performs research in atomistic, mesoscale and multiscale modeling, including quantum and classical molecular dynamics, dissipative particle dynamics, lattice gas and lattice-Boltzmann techniques, and exploits state of the art high performance computing and visualisation methods.

Professor Coveney's research interests are very cross-disciplinary and involve collaborations with chemists, physicists, mathematicians, materials scientists, engineers, and computer scientists. His work has a substantial high performance computing element, but it also includes theory as well as close collaborations with experimentalists in relevant areas. He has close collaborations with various industrial and high-tech companies, including Schlumberger, Accelrys, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), British Telecom and MI-SWACO.

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Jack Dongarra

Director, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee
Director, Center for Information Technology Research

Jack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee and holds the title of Distinguished Research Staff in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow at Manchester University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He is the director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He is also the director of the Center for Information Technology Research at the University of Tennessee which coordinates and facilitates IT research efforts at the University.

Jack specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for his contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches; in 2008 he was the recipient of the first IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing; in 2010 he was the first recipient of the SIAM Special Interest Group on Supercomputing's award for Career Achievement; and in 2011 he was the recipient of the IEEE IPDPS 2011 Charles Babbage Award. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.