CACR Director
Dr. Mark A. Stalzer is the executive director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research and a member of the Computing & Mathematical Sciences faculty at the California Institute of Technology. At CACR he leads a group of computational scientists that work in aeronautics, applied mathematics, astronomy, biology, engineering, geophysics, materials science, and physics. He also serves as the co-director of both Caltech’s NNSA-funded Predictive Science Center and the Center for the Integrative Study of Cell Regulation. CACR’s efforts often share a strategic theme of using computation to more quickly couple theory and experimental results (see Engineering Computational Science and Engineering). Mark is a lecturer and organizer for Caltech’s survey course Methods of Computational Science and he helped form a PhD minor in CSE. Previously Dr. Stalzer was the director of the Information Sciences Lab at the Hughes Research Laboratories where he managed 70 Ph.D. level scientists working on over 50 programs for three Fortune 100 companies. As a senior scientist at Hughes, he was the principal investigator of a DARPA program that developed novel methods for computing radar cross sections with applications to stealth technology. Mark also helped initiate activities in quantum computing and communications at HRL which remain a mainstay of the lab to this day. Dr. Stalzer has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southern California, and a B.S. in mathematical physics and computer science from the California State University, Northridge. He also completed the executive program at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. Mark is the author of over 40 reports and publications in places such as the Journal of Computational Physics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Parallel Processing Letters, and Scientific Programming. He holds three US patents. Dr. Stalzer is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of AAAS and Sigma Xi.
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