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About the tutor(s)
Tarek El-Ghazawi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technology (IMPACT) at The George Washington University. His research interests include high-performance computing, computer architecture, reconfigurable computing and parallel programming.
He is one of the principal co-authors of the UPC parallel programming language and the primary author of the UPC book from John Wiley and Sons. He has received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1988. El-Ghazawi has published well over 250 refereed research publications in this area. Dr. El-Ghazawi has served in many editorial roles including an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers. He chaired and co-chaired many international conferences and symposia. He has served on many advisory boards and in consulting roles including service as a consultant at NASA GSFC and NASA Ames. Dr. El-Ghazawi’s research has been frequently supported by Federal agencies and industry. El-Ghazawi was selected a Fellow of the IEEE, a Research Faculty Fellow of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Toronto; a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award; and a recipient of the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technical Innovation and the GW SEAS Distinguished Researcher Award. He also served as a U.S. Senior Fulbright Scholar.
Research lecture
Exploiting Hierarchical Locality using PGAS Languages for Productive Extreme Computing
