Dr. Dorian Arnold, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of New Mexico, discussed "Research: Personal Stories
and Specifics About Research" in July 2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_DA. PDF
of ppt used during webinar.
Dr. Dorian Arnold is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of
New Mexico. His research focuses on the performance and reliability of extremely
large scale systems with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even
millions of processing elements. Dorian earned his Ph.D. at the University of
Wisconsin, where he developed MRNet with Phil Roth and their advisor, Barton
Miller. He received M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Tennessee and
Regis University. Dorian also worked in the Innovative Computing Laboratory,
directed by Dr. Jack Dongarra, as technical lead of the NetSolve project, which
won an R&D Top 100 award in 2000. As a student scholar at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Dorian (in collaboration with LLNL researchers)
developed the Stack Trace Analysis Tool for effectively debugging large scale
applications.
On a personal note, Dorian is originally from Belize and
his wife, Jay, is from Guam. They have two awesome kids, Denice and DJ. Apart
from his family (and CS of course) his greatest loves are sports (particularly
basketball) and loud music (particularly dance hall reggae).