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Keynote Speaker
The keynote speaker for IEEE SRDS 2006 is Dr. George Liang-Tai Chiu, Senior Manager, Advanced Server Hardware Systems, IBM.
Dr. Chiu will be giving a talk entitled "Blue Gene/L, The Fastest and the Most Reliable Supercomputer in the world".
His biography is as follows:
George L.-T. Chiu was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He received a BS degree in physics from the National Taiwan University in 1970, a Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978, and an MS degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University, New York in 1995.
From 1977 to 1980, he was a research staff astronomer with the Astronomy Department at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1980, he joined the IBM Research Division at T. J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member. He worked on high-speed testing for Josephson technology from 1980 to 1981. He became a manager of the Josephson Technology in 1981. During the years 1983 through 1988, he was the Manager of the Silicon Test Systems. From 1988 to 1989, he served as the Technical Assistant to the IBM Research Vice President of Logic, Memory and Packaging, Dr. Dean Eastman. From 1989 to 1992, he was the Senior Manager of Optics and Optoelectronics. From 1992 to 1999, he was the Senior Manager of Packaging and Optics. From 1999 to 2000, he was the Senior Manager of Packaging Technology. He has been the Senior Manager of Advanced Hardware Server Systems in the Systems Department since April of 2000.
His research encompassed VLSI device and internal node characterization at picosecond resolution, laser-beam and electron-beam contactless testing techniques, functional testing of chips and packages, optical lithography, optoelectronic packaging, thin film transistor liquid crystal displays, optical projection displays, and head-mounted displays. He is one of the three co-founders of the Blue Gene project, and he has been in charge of the Blue Gene supercomputer hardware since 1999. His current research interest and management responsibility include supercomputer architecture and computer systems packaging. He has published numerous papers and delivered several short courses internationally in the areas mentioned above. He holds twenty three US patents. He received an IBM Corporate Award in 2005, the Gerstner Award for Client Excellence in 2005, the EE ACE Awards as part of the Blue Gene/L System Design Team in 2005, two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, and eight Invention Achievement Awards from IBM.
Dr. Chiu is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the International Astronomical Union.
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