Intel Academic Community Featured Members

Featured Community Members: All of our community members are special. The individuals below have been called out for their leadership and contributions in advancing multi-core curriculum development.

Dr. Jianfeng Yang is our newest Intel Black Belt for Academia. His leadership has been instrumental in helping Intel integrate Parallel Programming into Universities in China. He is an associate professor of Electronic Information College of Wuhan University and the leader of the Multi-core Curriculum, embedded system design curriculum of Wuhan University and of the Wuhan University-Intel Multi-core Technology joint lab. Dr. Yang recently led a webinar, The Multi-Core Computer Science Curriculum in the People's Republic of China for the Intel Academic Communities 2008 Webinar series, Sequential programming is no more - why are we still teaching it?

Dr. Matthew Wolf is an Intel Software Network Black Belt and the recipient of the first Leadership in Academia Award. Dr. Wolf is a member of the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Tech, and a research scientist at the School of Computer Science of the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Wolf was an Intel featured presenter at SIGCSE 09 and the first recipient of the 2009 Leadership in Academia Award. He is also a charter member of Intel's Academic Community Advisory Council, which is a world-wide coalition of education professionals providing feedback and guidance regarding Intel's educational materials and plans.

	Professor Tom Murphy is an Intel Software Network Black Belt. Professor Murphy is Computer Science Program Chair and Director of Contra Costa College HPC Regional Education Training Center. He helps lead weeklong Parallel and Distributed Programming workshops across the US through the SC and National Computational Science Institute. He is member of the SC07-11 Education Program steering committee and the co-host of the Academic Community Teach Parallel! series.
	Leadership in Academia Award, Spring 2009! Dr. Walter F. Tichy is professor of Computer Science at the University Karlsruhe, Germany. He is also director of the software engineering department, including a SUN authorized Java Center, at Forschungszentrum Informatik, a research and transfer institute associated with the University. Dr. Tichy received a B.S. from the Technical University in Munich in 1974 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1976 and 1980. Dr. Tichy is also a charter member of Intel's Academic Community Advisory Council, which is a world-wide coalition of education professionals providing feedback and guidance regarding Intel's educational materials and plans.
	Leadership in Academia Award, Spring 2009! Dr. Victor Pankratius heads the young investigator "Software Engineering for Multicore Systems group at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His current research concentrates on how to make parallel programming easier for the average programmer. He chairs the international working group, Software Engineering for Parallel Systems of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. Dr. Pankratius holds a Ph.D. with distinction from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
	Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari is with the Department of Science Teaching of the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he heads a group that develops courses in computer science for high school students. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and computer science from the Tel Aviv University. In 2004, he received the ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. He is the author of eleven textbooks on concurrent computation, programming languages, mathematical logic and the nature of science. He has shared his recent textbook, Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming, with the Academic Community.
	Daniel Ernst, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire recently led a webinar, Introducing a Curriculum for Concurrency: a Holistic Approach for the Intel Academic Communities 2008 Webinar series, Sequential programming is no more - why are we still teaching it?
	Professor Bertrand Meyer is an academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language. He is an ACM Fellow and President of Informatics Europe, the new organization of European computer science departments. He is currently writing an introductory programming textbook, Touch of Class, and preparing the corresponding introductory course at ETH, with the supporting TRAFFIC software.
	Dr. Ariel Ortiz is a professor with the Information Technology Department Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México Atizapán de Zaragoza. He has produced a workshop to introduce Erlang, an open source functional language that allows building highly parallel, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. It's aimed at instructors who are searching for a simpler way to teach parallel programming. Common concurrency-related problems in mainstream languages, such as race conditions and deadlocks, are minimized or eliminated when using Erlang.
	Dr. Nir Shavit is one of the leading researchers in the multi core area in the academia in Israel and participates in academic relationships with Intel Israel. Professo Shavit is on the faculty of Tel-Aviv University and a member of the technical staff at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. In 2004 he received the Gödel Prize, the highest award in theoretical computer science. His new textbook, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, is a comprehensive presentation of the principles and tools available for programming multiprocessor machines. More information on courseware from Dr. Shavit.
	Professor José Luis Elvira Valenzuela is a course manager to operating systems, distributed and multi-agent systems, data structures, language processors, as well as, infrastructure engineering of the labs area for the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), Department Electronics and Computer Science in Guadalajara, Mexico. He has been recently invited by Intel Education to participate teaching Multi-Core programming to universities in México. He is responsible for creating the Spanish version of the Multi-core Programming for Academia Module.
	Dr. Sanjeev K Aggarwal is a charter member of Intel's Academic Community Advisory Council, which is a world-wide coalition of education professionals providing feedback and guidance regarding Intel's educational materials and plans. Along with Mainak Chaudhuri, and Rajat Moona from the India Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur Dr. Aggarwal worked to create new multi-core programming courseware that they used to train professors throughout India.
	Dr. Robert Chun has 20 years of industry experience in various hardware and software engineering positions, and in R&D at corporate research laboratories. He is currently a Professor in the Computer Science Department at San Jose State University, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in computer architecture and operating systems. In 2002 and 2003, he received a NASA Faculty Fellowship enabling him to work with scientists at the Ames Supercomputing Center. Dr. Chun is also a charter member of Intel’s Academic Community Advisory Council, which is a world-wide coalition of education professionals providing feedback and guidance regarding Intel’s educational materials and plans.
	Dr. Wei Xue is a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University. His research interest includes parallel algorithm design, cluster computing and network storage. He has published research papers in international journals and conferences and served on program committees for several conferences. He is a member of ACM society and a member of IEEE society. He is also a charter member of Intel's Academic Community Advisory Council, which is a world-wide coalition of education professionals providing feedback and guidance regarding Intel's educational materials and plans.
	Professor Adolfo Di Mare is a Researcher at the Escuela de Ciencias de la Computación e Informática [ECCI], Universidad de Costa Rica. He has produced a version of Multi-core Programming for Beginners in Spanish.
	Professor Sergey Nemnyugin, Department of Computational Physics, Saint -Petersburg State University has developed three curricula using Intel materials: Basics of Parallel Programming, Modern Technologies of Programming for Researcher, and Software tools for high-performance.