Presenter

George Biros is the W. A. ``Tex'' Moncrief Chair in Simulation-Based
Engineering Sciences in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering
and Sciences and has Full Professor appointments with the departments
of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (by courtesy) at the
University of Texas at Austin.

From 2008 to 2011, he was an Associate Professor in the School of
Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech and The Wallace
H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and
Emory University. From 2003 to 2008, he was an Assistant professor in
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of
Pennsylvania. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from
Aristotle University in Greece (1995), his MS in Biomedical
Engineering from Carnegie Mellon (1996), and his PhD in Computational
Science and Engineering also from Carnegie Mellon University (2000).
He was a postdoctoral associate at the Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences from 2000 to 2003. Biros was part of the
research teams that won the IEEE/ACM SC03 and SC10 Gordon Bell Prize.