Geoffrey Charles Fox (born 7 June 1944) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and computer scientist. As of March 2024, he is a professor in the Computer Science Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia.
He received the High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) Achievement Award[9] and the Ken Kennedy Award for foundational contributions to parallel computing in 2019.[10]
He was the director of FutureSystems, which was a cyberinfrastructure test to enable development of new approaches to scientific computing before it was shut down in December, 2021.[11] He is engaged in various projects to enhance the capabilities of minority serving institutions.
Over the years, Fox has supervised the Ph.D. of 75[12] students and written over 1200 publications in physics and computer science according, including his book Parallel Computing Works!.[13]
Fox currently works on applications of computer science in bioinformatics, defense, earthquake and ice-sheet science, particle physics, and chemical informatics. His current research interests are network systems science, high performance computing and clouds, AI for science, deep learning for data analytics and simulation surrogates, and the interface of data engineering and data science with data systems.[14]
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↑ "Geoffrey Charles Fox". mathgeneology.org. Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
↑ 'Cambridge Tripos Examination Results', Times, 20 June 1964, p. 5.
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