Ian T. Foster | |
Senior Scientist, MCS Argonne National Laboratory |  |
Research:Ian Foster is Director of the Computation Institute, a joint institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He is also an Argonne Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, Chan Soon-Shiong Scholar and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science. Ian received a BSc (Hons I) degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD from Imperial College, United Kingdom, both in computer science. His research deals with distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies, and innovative applications of those technologies to scientific problems in such domains as climate change and biomedicine. Methods and software developed under his leadership underpin many large national and international cyberinfrastructures. Dr. Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the British Computer Society. His awards include the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Next Generation award, the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal, R&D Magazine's Innovator of the Year, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a co-founder of Univa UD, Inc., a company established to deliver grid and cloud computing solutions. Selected Research Projects:GlobusGriPhyN and iVDGL GRIDS : Grid Research Integration Deployment and Support Center GADU : Genome Analysis and Database Update CDIGS : Community Driven Improvement of Globus Software CEDPS : Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science Swift ESG : Earth System Grid TeraGrid OSG : Open Science Grid caBIG : cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid iBi : Initiative in Biomedical Informatics CIM-EARTH : A Community Integrated Model of Economic and Resource Trajectories for Humankind BioCLOUD TeraGrid GIG : TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group | |
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