Curriculum vitae & Biosketch

Education

Ph.D. in Plasma Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (1/95)

B.A. in Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (5/89)

 

Experience

Staff Scientist, Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology (8/00-present)

Technical Staff Member, Advanced Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory (9/96-8/00)

Visiting Researcher, California Institute of Technology (5/99-8/00)

Visiting Researcher, University of California at Irvine (3/98-8/00)

Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico at Los Alamos (1/96-8/97)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Advanced Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory (1/95-9/96)

Graduate Research Assistant, Princeton University (8/89-12/94)

Research Assistant, Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley (5/88-5/89)

Research Assistant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (5/87-5/89)

Research Assistant, Naval Research Laboratory (5/86-8/86)

 

Research Interests

Computational science, large-scale parallel computer simulations, generic and object-oriented programming techniques, software design and development, problem solving environments

 

Honors

Fellow of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation (9/89-8/94)

Fellow of the National Science Foundation (9/89-6/92)

Graduated Summa Cum Laude from UC Berkeley (5/89)

Recipient of the University Medal, awarded annually by UC Berkeley to the most outstanding graduating senior (5/89)

Admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Pi Sigma honor societies (5/88)

Recipient of the Regents Scholarship at UC Berkeley (8/85-5/89)

Dr. julian c. cummings

Dr. Cummings has been a research scientist on the staff of the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at Caltech since August 2000 studying parallel applications.

E-mail: cummings@cacr.caltech.edu