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Kirk Jordan Dr. Kirk E. Jordan is the Emerging Solutions Executive in IBM's Deep Computing organization within the Systems and Technology Group. In this role, he has responsibility for overseeing development of applications for IBM’s advanced computing architectures, investigating and developing concepts for new areas of growth for IBM especially in the life sciences involving high performance computing, providing leadership in high-end computing and simulation in such areas as systems biology, medical and diagnostic imaging, and high-end visualization and is the Deep Computing technical representative to IBM’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry unit. In addition to his IBM responsibilities, Jordan is able to maintain his visibility as a computational applied mathematician in the high-performance computing community. He is active on national scientific committees on science and high-perfomance computing issues and has received several awards for his work on supercomputers. His main research interests lie in the efficient use of advanced architectures computers for simulation and modeling especially in the area of systems biology. He has authored numerous papers on performance analysis of advanced computer architectures and investigated methods that exploit these architectures. Areas he has published include interactive visualization on parallel computers, parallel domain decomposition for reservoir/groundwater simulation, turbulent convection flows, parallel spectral methods, multigrid techniques and wave propagation.

 

 Academic degrees/activites
  • Ph.D, Applied Mathematics, University of Delaware
  • Research Affiliate, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 Professional activities
* Copper Mountain Conference Series on Iterative Methods and Multgrid
Member of Program Committee
 
* Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
VP for Industry
Member, SIAM Committee on Science Policy
SIAM Visiting Lecturer
 
* Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Chair of the Mathematical Sciences Advisory Board
 
* Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member
 
* American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Member
 
* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member
 

 

 Prior work experience
  • Exxon Research and Engineering
  • Thinking Machines
  • Kendall Square Research
  • SUNY Oswego

 

 Research collaborations

 

 Outside activites


 Contact
Dr. Kirk E. Jordan
1-617-693-4581
kjordan@us.ibm.com
IBM Corporation
One Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142