Richard Marciano: I received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Iowa in 1989 and 1992, respectively, and an advanced technical degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science from the National School of Civil Aviation, Toulouse, France ("Ingenieur de l'Aviation Civile").
Since 1987, I have been a computational science consultant/researcher. After serving as a parallel processing consultant at the Advanced Research Computing Services Group (ARCS), I worked as a computational scientist at the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (NSCEE). After conducting research as an associate research staff scientist with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), working in computational environmental science, I am now research scientist with the Enabling Technologies Group at SDSC.
My research interests also include: parallel and distributed computing, computational science, spatial analysis, environmental modeling and visualization, ecological data servers, parallel algorithm design and benchmarking, parallelizing and optimizing compilers, algebraic specifications.