Presenter

Alan D. George is Professor of ECE at the University of Florida, Founder and Director of the NSF Center for High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), and Fellow of the IEEE. He earned the B.S. in CS and M.S. in ECE from the University of Central Florida, and the Ph.D. in CS from the Florida State University. Dr. George’s research is in high-performance architectures, networks, systems, services, and apps for reconfigurable, parallel, distributed, and fault-tolerant computing. In January 2017, Dr. George and the lead site of CHREC will move to the University of Pittsburgh, where he will serve as the Ruth and Howard Mickle Endowed Chair and the Department Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering.