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Education:

Ph.D. Computer Science
University of York, United Kingdom, July 1994
Thesis title: “Extracting dataflow information for parallelizing nested loop kernels”

B.Eng. Microelectronic Systems Engineering
University of Manchester, United Kingdom, June 1990
First Class Honors

Short Bio:

Hi! My name is Edward. I am a researcher with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. 

I joined The University of Texas at Austin in December 2003.  From 1997 to 2003, I was a senior member of technical staff at Platform Computing Corp. where I developed distributed resource management systems for high performance computing clusters.  Prior to that, I was a research faculty member at the National University of Singapore.  I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of York in the United Kingdom in 1994, and a B.Eng. (First Class Honors) in Microelectronic Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester.

I am broadly interested in all aspects of the design and engineering of novel software systems, including data/storage and distributed/parallel systems, as well as their application to high performance scientific computing.  I also enjoy mentoring students, so I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Computer Sciences and the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation. 

My research is (has been) funded by IBM (2005 and 2006 Faculty Awards) and NSF (Awards #0721931, #0504077 and #0503697).