Andrew A. Chien

Andrew A. Chien is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as a Research Scientist with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) .

The primary goals of Professor Chien's research involve the interaction of programming languages, compilers, system software, and machine architecture in high-performance parallel systems. He has participated in the design of a number of parallel systems (hardware and software), including the Illinois Concert System (efficient parallel object-oriented programming), and Illinois Fast Messages (high performance communication for MPP's and workstation clusters), and the MIT J-Machine (a 4096-processor fine-grained parallel computer). His research is supported by ARPA, NASA, ONR, and NSF as well as several corporate donors. Professor Andrew Chien also co-directs an ARPA-funded I/O characterization project and is a participant in the Scalable I/O Initiative (SIO), working on the characterization of application input/output patterns for scalable, parallel scientific programs. Andrew Chien is the leader of the Concurrent Systems Architecture Group at the University of Illinois

Dr. Chien received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and his M.S. and Ph.D., in computer science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He was a recipient of the 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, and in 1995 received the C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.

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