Presenter

Jos is currently a Senior Engineering Manager at MathWorks with responsibility for the development of all HPC and parallel computing products, MATLAB Drive and MATLAB Connector. He has lead the parallel computing team since its inception in 2003 and in that time has architected much of the toolbox, particularly the core infrastructure and parallel language areas. At SC08, on behalf of MathWorks, he was a joint winner of the HPC Challenge Class 2 award for Most Productive Implementation. He received a D.Phil in Atomic and Laser Physics and an MA in Physics from Oxford University, UK. After completing his D.Phil he held a Royal Society Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His area of research was Experimental Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), a branch of low-temperature atomic physics.