Bio as of 3/15/2013: Ganesh L. Gopalakrishnan earned his PhD in
Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 1986, joining Utah the
same year.  He was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of
Calgary (1988), and conducted sabbatical work at Stanford University
(1995), Intel, Santa Clara (2002), and Utah (2009, developing a
Parallel and Concurrent Programming Curriculum Development with
Microsoft Research).  He is Director of the Center for Parallel
Computing at Utah. He was awarded one of the six "Beacons of
Excellence" Awards for 2012 by the University of Utah.  His currently
active projects are: Verification Methods and Tool Frameworks for
Parallel and Concurrent Systems; Formal Techniques to Enhance System
Resilience; Integrated Static and Dynamic Methods for Concurrent
Systems; and Dynamic Analysis of Computational Frameworks of the
Million-Core Scale. He has research grants and contracts from NSF,
SRC, and DOE, has published over 150 refereed papers, and graduated 16
PhD students.