Dr. Ian Foster

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Biography

Ian Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago and a Senior Scientist at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory. He has a BSc degree from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a PhD from Imperial College in the United Kingdom, both in the field of computer science. His research is focused on distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies, with innovative applications in various scientific problem domains such as materials science, climate change, and biomedicine. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the British Computer Society (BCS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Foster’s work involves the development of tools and techniques that enable researchers to utilize high-performance computing technologies in new and impactful ways, including parallel distributed languages and algorithms, as well as high-performance networking.

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