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Daniel S. Katz is Director for Cyberinfrastructure Development
in the Center for Computation and Technology (CCT), and
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU).
Previous roles at JPL, from 1996 to 2006, include:
Principal Member of the Information Systems and Computer Science Staff, Supervisor of the Parallel Applications Technologies group,
Area Program Manager of High End Computing in
the Space Mission Information Technology Office,
Applications Project Element Manager for the Remote Exploration and
Experimentation (REE) Project, and
Team Leader for MOD Tool (a tool for the integrated design of microwave
and millimeter-wave instruments). From 1993 to 1996 he was employed by
Cray Research (and later by Silicon Graphics) as a Computational
Scientist on-site at JPL and Caltech, specializing in parallel
implementation of computational electromagnetic algorithms.
His research interests include: numerical methods, algorithms, and
programming applied to supercomputing, parallel computing, cluster
computing, and embedded computing; and fault-tolerant computing. He
received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in 1988, 1990, and
1994, respectively. His work is documented in numerous book chapters,
journal and conference publications, and NASA Tech Briefs. He is a
senior member of the IEEE, designed and maintained (until 2001) the
original website for the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society, and
serves on the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel
Processing's Executive Committee, and the steering committee for the
IEEE Cluster and IEEE Grid conference series.
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