The 2002 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE'2002)
Dr. FRANCINE BERMAN
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
C-014
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093
(858) 534-6195
http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/berman/index.html
Francine Berman is Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD, Fellow of the ACM, and Director of
the Grid Computing Laboratory at UCSD.
She currently serves as Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center
and Director of the National Science Foundation's National Partnership for
Advanced Computational Infrastructure.
Over the last two decades, Dr. Berman
has been a leader in Parallel and Distributed Computation where her research
has focused on programming environments, middleware, and models that support
high performance and "Grid" computing. Dr. Berman is co-lead of the Application-Level Scheduling (AppLeS)
project and is lead PI on the Steerable Software Virtual Instruments project, a
large NSF ITR project.
As Director of NPACI and SDSC, Dr.
Berman oversees a national partnership focused on the development of
computational infrastructure to support U.S. science and engineering, national
and international research and development collaborations, and a center of over
350 staff. She is one of the two PIs of
the National Science Foundation's recent $53 million dollar TeraGrid award and
serves on numerous technical, advisory, conference, and scientific
committees.