Sanjay Goil

Sanjay Goil is a PhD candidate in the Computer Engineering Department and the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing at Northwestern University. He received his B.E in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1990 and an MS in Computer and Information Science from Syracuse University in 1995. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Research Associate in the Networked Computing Research Department at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill. His research interests are in the area of parallel and distributed computing and systems, parallel algorithms and high performance I/O, especially for large databases and data mining.

Alok Choudhary

Alok N. Choudhary received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1989, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1986 and B.E.(Hons.) from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1982. He has been an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northwestern University since September, 1996. From 1989 to 1996 he was on the faculty at Syracuse University. He received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award in 1993 (1993-1999). He has also received an IEEE Engineering Foundation award, an IBM Faculty Development award and an Intel Research Council award. His research interests are in all aspects of high-performance computing and its applications in databases, decision support systems, multimedia, science and enginering. He has published extensively in various journals and conferences. He has also written a book and several book chapters. He is an editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and has served as a guest editor for IEEE Computer and IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. He has also been a visiting researcher at Intel and IBM.