John Gilbert
Institute Role
Member of Computing Solutions Group
Role in Affiliated Centers
Member of the Greenscale Center for Energy-Efficient Computing
Research
John Gilbert’s research interests include
high-performance computing, combinatorial scientific computing, numerical linear algebra,
sparse matrix methods, computation with large graphs, mathematical software,
and computational science and engineering. Gilbert applies his research in the
area of cooling technologies for energy-efficient computational facilities by developing
efficient numerical algorithms for computationally modeling airflows on
supercomputers.
Biography
John Gilbert received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at
Stanford in 1981. From 1981 to 1988, he was on the Computer Science faculty at
Cornell University. In 1988 he moved to Xerox PARC, where he performed and
directed research in parallel computing, computational geometry, languages and
compilers for high-performance computing, and mathematical algorithms and
software. In 1997 he founded the Computation and Matter Area at PARC, whose
projects included distributed data analysis for collaborating sensors,
meso-scale MEMS for active surfaces, and modular robotics. In 2002, Gilbert
joined the Computer Science Department and the Computational Science and Engineering
Program at UC Santa Barbara. Gilbert has served on the Council of the Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, has chaired the SIAM Activity Group on
Supercomputing and the ACM Special Interest Group on Numerical Mathematics, and
has served as editor for several journals in computational science and applied
mathematics. Gilbert has authored or co-authored over 100 publications and has
been granted 4 patents.
