Geoffrey C. Fox

Distinguished Scientist and Director

Ph.D. , Cambridge University (Theoretical Physics), 1967

Geoffrey Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and is now professor of Informatics and Computing, and Physics at Indiana University where he is director of the Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing.  He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University. He has supervised the PhD of 62 students and published over 600 papers in physics and computer science. He currently works in applying computer science to Bioinformatics, Defense, Earthquake and Ice-sheet Science, Particle Physics and Chemical Informatics. He is principal investigator of FutureGrid – a new facility to enable development of new approaches to computing. He is involved in several projects to enhance the capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions. 

phone: 812-219-4643

email: gcf [at] indiana [dot] edu

website:  http://www.infomall.org

Gregor von Laszewski

Assistant Director

Gregor von Laszewski is conducting state-of-the-art work in Cloud computing and GreenIT at Indiana University as part of the Future Grid project. During a 2 year leave of absence from Argonne National Laboratory he was an Associate at Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to this, he worked between 1996 and 2007 for Argonne National Laboratory where he was last a scientist and a fellow of the Computation Institute at University of Chicago. He received a Masters Degree in 1990 from the University of Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Syracuse University in computer science. He is involved in Grid computing since the term was coined. Current research interests are in the areas of GreenIT, Grid & Cloud computing, and GPGPUs.

He is best known for his efforts in making Grids usable and initiating the Java Commodity Grid Kit which provides a basis for many Grid related projects including the Globus toolkit (http://www.cogkits.org). His Web page is located at http://cyberaide.org.

Scott Beason

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