Alma mater Cambridge University Name Geoffrey Fox Doctoral advisor Richard J. Eden | Fields Computer Science, Physics | |
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Born Geoffrey Charles Fox June 8, 1944 (age 80) Dunfermline, Scotland ( 1944-06-08 ) Institutions California Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, Florida State University, Indiana University Thesis Scattering of Particles with Spin And Electromagnetic Interactions (1967) Books Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things Notable students Stephen Wolfram, Roberto Battiti, Apoorva D. Patel Similar People Stephen Wolfram, Apoorva D Patel, Roberto Battiti, Hugh David Politzer, Murray Gell‑Mann | ||
Residence United States of America Doctoral students Stephen Wolfram Education University of Cambridge | ||
Geoffrey Charles Fox is a British-born American theoretical physicist and computer scientist. He received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University in 1967 and is now a Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computing, and Physics at Indiana University where he is director of the Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing. He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University. He has supervised the Ph.D. of 65 students and published over 1200 publications in physics and computer science according to Google Scholar, including his book Parallel Computing Works! He currently works in applying computer science to bioinformatics, defense, earthquake and ice-sheet science, particle physics and chemical informatics. He is principal investigator of FutureGrid – a new cyberinfrastructure test to enable development of new approaches to scientific computing. He is involved in several projects to enhance the capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions.