Jack Dongarra
Jack Joseph Dongarra FRS[8] (born July 18, 1950) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee.[9] He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Turing Fellowship in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, and is an adjunct professor and teacher in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.[10] He served as a faculty fellow at the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (2014–2018).[11] Dongarra is the founding director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee.[12] He was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2021.
Jack Dongarra
July 18, 1950
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)
- ACM Turing Award (2021)
- IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (2020)
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2019)
- SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2019)
- ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award (2013)
- IEEE Charles Babbage Award (2011)
- SIAM SIAG/Supercomputing Career Prize (2010)
- SIAM Fellow (2009)
- IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing (2008)
- IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award (2003)
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2001)
- ACM Fellow (2001)
- IEEE Fellow (1999)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994)
Education[edit]
Dongarra received a BSc degree in mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a MSc degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. In 1980, he received PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico under the supervision of Cleve Moler.[1]
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