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Andrew Rau-Chaplin is a Professor of Computer Science and the director of the Risk Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, Canada. He earned his M.C.S. and Ph.D. from Carleton University in 1990 and 1993, respectively. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at DIMACS - a National Science Foundation center at Princeton University and Rutgers, he joined the faculty at the Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1994 and became a professor at Dalhousie in 1997. His research focuses on High Performance Computing (HPC) and addresses computationally intensive challenges in domains such as data warehousing, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), spatial information systems, catastrophe modeling, and risk analytics. Rau-Chaplin has authored over 100 publications in conferences and journals and has supervised M.Sc. and Ph.D. students who have taken positions in academia and leading technology companies like Google, Microsoft, and Intel. His approach to academic research is grounded in an algorithmic perspective, with a commitment to addressing system issues inherent in building functional HPC applications, performing systematic experimental evaluations.