Andrew A. Chien

SAIC Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering

Director of the Center for Networked Systems

Leader of the Concurrent Systems Architecture Group

….. all at the University of California, San Diego

Andrew’s Office: 4808 AP&M, Email: achien@ucsd.edu and current travel schedule.

Additional Current Positions

• 2005-present, Chair of Steering Committee, IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing Conference (HPDC)
• 2004-present, Editor (member of Editorial board), Parallel Computing, Elsevier Science
• 2004-present, Member, SDSC and NCSA Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch Group
• 2002-present, Strategic Advisor and Executive Committee Member, San Diego Supercomputing Center, University of California, San Diego
• 2002-present, Member of Technical Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation TeraGrid Project
• 2002-present, Editor (member of Editorial board), Journal of Grid Computing, Kluwer Academic
• 1999-present, Member of Steering Committee, ACM SIGPLAN Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
• 1998-present, Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Previous Positions

Research Projects (CSAG Group page)

Current Courses:

• CSE294: Large Scale Systems Seminar, Summer 2005
• Previous Courses

Andrew is currently involved with the organization of the following Conferences and workshops (or giving an invited talk):

• Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, July 2004, Los Angeles, California.
• Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 2004, Montreal, Canada.
• Steering Committee, ACM Workshop on General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors, August 2004, Los Angeles, California.
• General Co-chair, Grid and Cooperative Computing Workshop (GCC), October 2004, Wuhan, China.
• PC Member, ASPLOS'04 Workshop on Operating System and Architectural Support for the on demand IT Infrastructure, October 2004, Boston, Massachusetts.
• PC Member, ACM/IEEE SC2004 (formerly known as Supercomputing), November 2004, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Keynote Speaker, First Workshop on Grid Technology and Applications (WoGTA 2004), Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• PC Member, Third International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long Distance Networks (PFLDnet), February 2005, Lyon, France.
• Invited Speaker, Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, DARPA Future Optical Technologies Workshop, Palo Alto, June 29-30, 2005.
• PC Member, IEEE Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14), Research Triangle Park, July 2005.
• PC Member, ACM/IEEE SC2005 (formerly known as Supercomputing), November 2005, Seattle, Washington.

Contact Information:

Andrew A. Chien
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0114
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114
USA
Email: achien@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 822-2458
FAX: (858) 822-2459

Support Contact information:

Patricia Bladh, Business Officer, Center for Networked System, email at pbladh@ucsd.edu

Jenine Combs, Administrative Assistant, email jcombs@ucsd.edu

Previous Positions:

• 2002-2005, Member of Steering Committee, IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing Conference (HPDC)
• 2003, At-Large Member of the Steering Group, Global Grid Forum
• 2000-2003, Global Grid Forum Steering Group, Peer to Peer Area Director
• 1999-2003, Chief Technology Officer and co-Founder, Entropia, Inc. an enterprise desktop Grid company
• 1998-2002, Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center, University of California, San Diego
• 1998-2000, Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• 1995-1998, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and as a Senior Research Scientist in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• 1996-1997, Visiting Researcher, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
• 1990-1995, Assistant Professor, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and as a Research Scientist in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications .

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990.
• M.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984.

Previous Courses:

University of Illinois

• CS 333 Computer Systems Organization
• UIUC Department of Computer Science Seminar (and Graduate Student Orientation)
• CS 491 on High Performance Distributed Object Systems
• CS 433 Theory of High Speed Parallel Computation
• CS 491 Hardware and Software Architecture for Parallel Servers
• CS 333 Computer System Organization, Fall 1995
• CS 397 Computer Architecture Laboratory (HDL's and FPGA's)

University of California, San Diego

• CSE 225 -- High Performance Distributed Computing (Grids), Winter 1999
• CSE 141 -- Introduction to Computer Architecture, Spring 1999
• CSE141 (Undergraduate Computer Architecture) Winter 2000
• CSE 141 and 141L (Undergraduate Computer Architecture), Fall 2002
• CSE 225 (Grids and High Performance Distributed Computing), Winter 2003
• CSE291 (Programing Sensor Networks), Spring 2003
• CSE 225: High Performance Distributed Computing and Grids, Spring 2004
• CSE160: Introduction to Parallel Computation, Spring 2005
• CSE225: High Performance Distributed Computing and Grids, Spring 2005
• CSE294: Large Scale Systems Seminar, Spring 2005

Back to CSAG home page

---

achien@ucsd.edu