Dr. Jack Dongarra

Areas of Interest

• Scientific computing
• Numerical linear algebra
• Parallel processing
• Software tools
• Mathematical software and software repositories

Education

• B.Sc. 1972 in Mathematics, Chicago State University
• M.Sc. 1973 in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Ph.D 1980 in Applied Mathematics, University of New Mexico

Bio Summary

Jack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago
State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from
the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in
Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at
the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He
now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer
Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee,
has the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer
Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL),
Turing Fellow in the Computer Science and Mathematics Schools at the
University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science
Department at Rice University.

He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel
computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming
methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the
development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical
software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the
following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the
BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and
PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and
technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He was awarded the
IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for his contributions in the application of
high performance computers using innovative approaches. He is a Fellow of
the AAAS, ACM, and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of
Engineering.