NSF CHREC - Alan D. George, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)
Director, High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory

University of Florida, College of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
327 Larsen Hall, PO Box 116200
Gainesville, FL 32611-6200

Office
Larsen 327
(352) 392-5225
Lab
(352) 392-9034 or -9046
Fax
(352 )392-8671
Secretary
Ms. Waleta Newman, LAR313
(352) 846-3949
e-mail
george@hcs.ufl.edu or
george@chrec.ufl.edu

Research Interests
Reconfigurable, parallel, distributed, and fault-tolerant computing
High-performance computer architectures, networks, systems, and services
Interdisciplinary problems bridging computational science and computer engineering

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Brief Biography
Dr. George is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with tenure at the University of Florida. He is director of the High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory, a multi-university research facility cited as NSA Center of Excellence in High-Performance Computing and Networking, and director of the new NSF Center of High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC). His interests focus upon high-performance architectures, networks, systems, services, and applications for reconfigurable, parallel, distributed, and fault-tolerant computing. Dr. George holds graduate faculty status in both the ECE and CISE Departments at Florida.

Dr. George has been an author on over 110 refereed journal and conference papers and one book. He has served as lead principal investigator on sponsored research contracts and grants valued at over $6M with sponsors including DOD, Honeywell, NASA, NSF, NAVAIR, Rockwell, etc., and Co-PI on many others. Dr. George is a member of the editorial board at the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the Cluster Computing journal, and the Microprocessors and Microsystems journal. His recent conference service roles have included program co-chair for the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) in 2003, program co-chair and general vice-chair for the IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC) in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and founder and steering committee chair of the IEEE Workshop on High-Speed Local Networks (HSLN). Other service includes the role (2001-present) of chair of the university committee on HPC, which is responsible for the formation and strategic oversight of the university HPC Center.

Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Dr. George worked as task leader and senior computer engineer for Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) in Orlando, Florida, as computer engineer for General Electric in Daytona Beach, Florida, and programmer/analyst (c/o UCF) at the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando, Florida. Dr. George has been teaching since January of 1987, primarily in areas of computer engineering. He has taught numerous courses in electrical and computer engineering during this period, including graduate courses in computer architecture, parallel computing and architecture, computer networks, high-performance computer networks, reconfigurable computing and architecture, fault-tolerant computing and architecture, and software engineering, and undergraduate courses in computer networks, microprocessor-based system design, embedded-microprocessor system design, digital logic, senior design, circuit analysis, signal and system analysis, fibre optics, and linear controls.

Dr. George is a member of Tau Beta Pi (National Honor Society for Engineering) and Upsilon Pi Epsilon (National Honor Society for the Computing Sciences). He received the University Teacher of the Year Award in 1992-93, the EE Professor of the Year Award from the Florida Eta chapter of Tau Beta Pi in 1993-94, the Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award in 1994-95, a UF Productivity Award in 1998-99, and a UF/OIT Service Excellence Award in 2004-2005. In professional societies, he is a member of the IEEE (Senior grade) and the IEEE Computer Society, the Society for Computer Simulation (Senior grade), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Association of Computing Machinery.

Teaching Schedule, Spring Term 2007

Time	Event
3rd period, M-W-F (09:35-10:25)	EEL6763 Parallel Computer Architecture (239 Larsen Hall)
4th period MWF (10:40-11:30)	Office Hours (327 Larsen Hall)

All other periods are dedicated to research, course preparation, and service.