Presenter

Ian Foster is Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, and director of the Data Science and Learning Division, at Argonne National Laboratory, and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He has a BSc from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD from Imperial College, United Kingdom, both in computer science. His research is in distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies, and their applications to scientific problems. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, BCS, and IEEE, and has received the BCS Lovelace Medal; the IEEE CS Babbage, Goode, and Kanai Awards; and the ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award.