Biography

Positions:

2004-2009: Founded and CSO of Interactive Supercomputing
July 2002: MIT (Professor of Applied Mathematics)
January 1999 -- August 1999: UC Berkeley (Associate Professor of Mathematics)
July 1998: MIT (Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics)
1993-1998: MIT (Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics)
1990-1993: UC Berkeley (Morrey Assistant Professor) and LBL (Lewy Fellow)
1990: CERFACS, Toulouse, France. (NSF-NATO Postdoc)
1989-1990: Thinking Machines Corporation (Computing Scientist)
1985-1989: MIT (PhD Applied Mathematics) Thesis Advisor: Lloyd N. Trefethen
1984-1985: IBM -- TJ Watson Research Center (Predoctoral Research Assistant)
1980-1984: Yale University (BS,MS Mathematics)
1978(student),1979(student),1982(teacher) Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics

Sample of Corporate Consulting and Positions: Microsoft, Interactive Supercomputing, Akamai, Thinking Machines Inc., IBM, Pixar, NKK Japan

Prizes:

2013: Deshpande Award for Julia

2012: Elected SIAM Fellow

2005: The Lester R. Ford Award with Gilbert Strang

2003: MIT 1K Warm-up Round Award for Star-P

2001: SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize awarded at the SIAM Annual Meeting

2000: SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize (with Elmroth and Kågström)

1999: Edgerly Science Partnership Award

1998: Chauvenet Prize

1995: MIT School of Science Partnership Award

1995: NSF Faculty Career Award

1994: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship

1993: Leslie Fox Competition in Numerical Analysis

1990: Householder Prize

1990: Gordon Bell Prize. (Prize winners since 1987)

1989: Leslie Fox Competition in Numerical Analysis (2nd prize)

1989: NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship

1986--1989: Hertz Foundation

1985: First Student not only at MIT, but in the entire world to use Commercial MATLAB (Advisor Trefethen bought first license. Not a prize, but cool nonetheless.)

1983: Phi Beta Kappa

1980-1984: Numerous (8) Yale Mathematics Competition Prizes

1980: USA Mathematical Olympiad, ranked tenth in nation