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 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.