Tarek El-Ghazawi
The George Washington University
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~tarek/
http://www.chrec.org/

Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington University, and founding Co-Director of the High-Performance Computing Lab(HPCL). He has received his Ph.D. degree in 1988 from New Mexico State University in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. El-Ghazawi was previously with George Mason University, and also taught at Florida Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University. He has served as a consultant and visiting scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Ames Research Center.

His research interests include high-performance computing, parallel computer architectures, high-performance I/O, reconfigurable computing, experimental performance evaluations, computer vision and remote sensing. Dr. El-Ghazawi has over 100 refereed publications in these areas. He has led close to 30 research projects sponsored by government and industry particularly NASA, DoD, LUCITE, DARPA, NSF, and industry. Dr. El-Ghazawi is one of the main co-authors of the Unified Parallel C (UPC) language specifications and the UPC Input/Output specifications. He has served as an associate editor for the International Journal on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networking, and a guest editor for the IEEE Concurrency, special track on High-Performance Data Mining. He has served on numerous conference and technical program committees and is a member of the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, and a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

Andres Takach
Chief Scientist, C-Based Design
Mentor Graphics
http://www.mentor.com/products/esl/high_level_synthesis/catapult_synthesis/index.cfm

Dr. Andres Takach joined Mentor Graphics in 1997 where he has worked on C-based hardware design and high-level synthesis. From 1993 to 1997 he was faculty at Illinois Institute of Technology where he conducted research in high-level synthesis and hardware/software codesign. Andres Takach received his Ph.D degree from Princeton University in 1993 and his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986 and 1988 respectively.

Stefan Mohl
Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder
Mitrionics AB
http://www.mitrionics.com/

Stefan Möhl was one of two co-founders of Mitrionics AB in 2001. Mitrionics is a Swedish company based in the university town of Lund. The business focuses on allowing software development practices to be used in the world of Reconfigurable Supercomputing. Möhl currently holds the position of Vice President and CSO. His research work is mainly focused on processor architecture and language design in the context of parallel processing. Apart from his studies in Computer Science, he has studied Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology. His previous experiences include founding the e-commerce startup Shopsense in 1999.

Michael Babst
President & Founder
DSPlogic
http://www.dsplogic.com/home/

Mike is the President and Founder of DSPlogic, Inc, which specializes in high-performance embedded systems and reconfigurable computing. He is a practical, hands-on expert in High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing and FPGA-based Digital Signal Processing. Prior to founding DSPlogic, Mike was a founding member and Vice President of Eka Systems, a wireless networking startup. He has over 16 years of product development and management experience working for industry leaders such as General Electric Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Comsat Laboratories, and Viasat. Mike helped to develop several fixed, mobile, and airborne software-defined radios and other communications equipment for both military and commercial customers.

Mike holds a B.S. from Lehigh University, an M.S. from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, all in Electrical Engineering.

David Kirk
Chief Scientist
NVIDIA
http://www.nvidia.com/

Dr. David Kirk has been NVIDIA's Chief Scientist since January 1997. His contribution includes leading NVIDIA graphics technology development for today’s most popular consumer entertainment platforms. In 2006, Dr. Kirk was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his role in bringing high-performance graphics to personal computers. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions awarded in engineering. In 2002, Dr. Kirk received the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his role in bringing high-performance computer graphics systems to the mass market. From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Kirk was Chief Scientist, Head of Technology for Crystal Dynamics, a video game manufacturing company. From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Kirk was an engineer for the Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard Company. Dr. Kirk is the inventor of 50 patents and patent applications relating to graphics design and has published more than 50 articles on graphics technology. Dr. Kirk holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

Fabrizio Petrini
Cell Solutions Department
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
http://www.research.ibm.com/cell/

Dr. Fabrizio Petrini is a senior researcher of the Cell Solution Department of the IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory. His research interests include various aspects of multi-core processors and supercomputers, including high-performance interconnection networks and network interfaces, fault tolerance, job scheduling algorithms, parallel architectures, operating systems, and parallel programming languages. He has received numerous awards from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for contributions to supercomputing projects, and from other organizations for scientific publications. He is a member of the IEEE.

Dr. Petrini holds the PhD and Laurea degrees in Computer Science from Universita di Pisa.