Geoffrey C. Fox

Geoffrey Charles Fox is a British-born American theoretical physicist and computer scientist. He received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University in 1967 and is now a Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computing, and Physics at Indiana University, where he is director of the Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing. He previously held positions at Caltech[1], Syracuse University[2] and Florida State University[3]. He has supervised the Ph.D. of 65 students and published over 1200 publications in physics and computer science according to Google Scholar, including his book Parallel Computing Works![4] He currently works to apply computer science to bioinformatics, defense, earthquake and ice-sheet science, particle physics and chemical informatics. He is principal investigator of FutureGrid – a new cyberinfrastructure test to enable development of new approaches to scientific computing. He is involved in several projects to enhance the capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions.

Geoffrey Fox
Geoffrey Fox at Indiana in 2004
Born
Geoffrey Charles Fox

(1944-06-07) June 7, 1944
Dunfermline, Scotland
Alma materCambridge University
Known forCyberinfrastructure, E-Science, High Performance Computing, Matrix Multiplication
AwardsACM Fellow
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Mayhew Prize (1964)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, physics
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, Florida State University, Indiana University
ThesisScattering of Particles with Spin And Electromagnetic Interactions (1967)
Doctoral advisorRichard J. Eden
Other academic advisorsRichard Feynman

Notes
  1. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3419/1/Cubism.pdf
  2. "I: Key Personnel".
  3. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Geoffrey_Fox
  4. Fox, Geoffrey (1994). Parallel Computing Works!. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-253-4.

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