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Andrew A. Chien

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering



Professor Chien's research focuses on "grid" computing and cuts across a broad range of system layers. It includes both hardware and software architecture issues in large-scale parallel and distributed computer systems such as scalable servers, and clusters and workgroups of workstations

High performance computing and networking architecture, including grid, parallel and distributed computing, as well as operating systems, compilers and runtimes, object-oriented languages, and scalable clusters.

Capsule Bio:
Andrew A. Chien joined the UCSD faculty in 1998, where he is the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Chair Professor in computer science and engineering. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1990 from MIT, where he also earned his M.S. and B.S. degrees. From 1990-98, Chien held joint appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the computer science as well as electrical and computer engineering departments. Simultaneously, he was a research scientist in the UIUC-based National Center for Supercomputing Applications. At UCSD, Chien leads the Concurrent Systems Architecture Group, and is involved with joint projects with both NCSA and NPACI. In 1999 he co-founded Entropia, Inc., an enterprise desktop Grid company, where he now serves as Chief Technology Officer.

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