Geoffrey C. Fox

He was born in England and demonstrated early aptitude in mathematics and science.{{Cite web |title=Geoffrey C. Fox |url=https://luddy.indiana.edu/contact/profile/?profile_id=203 |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering: Profile |language=en-US}}

Fox was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1964, he was the Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, the highest scorer in the mathematics tripos.'Cambridge Tripos Examination Results', Times, 20 June 1964, p. 5. That same year, he played in the annual chess match against Oxford University{{Cite web |title=BritBase Chess: 82nd Varsity Match, Oxford v Cambridge, 1964 |url=https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/196403vars-viewer.html |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=www.saund.co.uk}} and received the Mayhew Prize for Applied Mathematics.{{Cite web |title=World-Renowned Computational Scientist Geoffrey Fox Joins UVA Faculty {{!}} University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science |url=https://engineering.virginia.edu/news-events/news/world-renowned-computational-scientist-geoffrey-fox-joins-uva-faculty |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=engineering.virginia.edu}} He earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University in 1967.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-25 |title=Geoffrey C. Fox |url=https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/geoffrey-c-fox |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science |language=en}} As an undergraduate research student, he worked in the laboratory of Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix.

Fox's academic career began at Caltech,{{cite magazine |url=http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3419/1/Cubism.pdf |title=Cosmic Cubism |magazine=Engineering & Science |date=March 1984 |publisher=California Institute of Technology}} where he worked from 1970 to 1990. He then joined Syracuse University from 1990 to 2000{{Cite web | url=https://surface.syr.edu/npac/ |title = Northeast Parallel Architectures Center}} and Florida State University from 2000 to 2001.{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Geoffrey_Fox |title=Profile: Geoffrey Charles Fox |website=ResearchGate}} In July 2001, Fox became a professor at Indiana University., where he served as the director of the Digital Science Center and associate dean for research and graduate studies at the School of Informatics and Computing. As of March 2024, he holds the position of professor at the University of Virginia's Computer Science Biocomplexity Institute.

In 1989, Fox was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for contributions to the use of computers in particle physics.{{cite web |title=APS Fellows Archive |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1989&unit_id=&institution= |accessdate=3 October 2020 |publisher=APS}} He is also a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to parallel computing.{{Cite web |title=ACM Fellows |url=https://awards.acm.org/xpages/fellows/award-recipients |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=awards.acm.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Geoffrey Fox - Home |url=https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100501616 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Author DO Series |language=en}}

Fox received the High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) Achievement Award{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=HPDC 2019 Achievement Award |url=https://www.hpdc.org/2019/awards/achievement-award/ |access-date=19 March 2024 |website=HPDC.org}}

Fox was the director of FutureSystems, a cyberinfrastructure project active until December, 2021.{{cite web |title=FutureSystems Staff |url=https://portal.futuresystems.org/staff.html}} He is involved in projects aimed at enhancing the capabilities of minority serving institutions. His research interests include applications of computer science in bioinformatics, defense, earthquake and ice-sheet science, particle physics, and chemical informatics. He focuses on network systems science, high-performance computing and clouds, AI for science, deep learning for data analytics and simulation surrogates, and the interface of data engineering and data science with data systems.

• {{Cite book |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/62297 |title=Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications Architecture, software, computer systems, and general issues - |date=1988 |volume=1 |publisher=ACM Press |isbn=0-89791-278-0 |editor-last=Fox |editor-first=Geoffrey |location=New York, New York, USA |language=en |doi=10.1145/62297}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272487856 |title=Solving problems on concurrent processors. 1: General techniques and regular problems / Geoffrey C. Fox |date=1988 |publisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn=978-0-13-823022-7 |editor-last=Fox |editor-first=Geoffrey C. |location=Englewood Cliffs, NJ}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/83774 |title=Solving problems on concurrent processors |date=1988 |publisher=Prentice Hall |isbn=978-0-13-823022-7 |editor-last=Fox |editor-first=Geoffrey C. |location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J |editor-last2=Angus |editor-first2=Ian G.}}
• {{Citation |last1=Fox |first1=Geoffrey C. |title=Parallel Computing in Industry |date=1994 |work=Parallel Computing Works! |pages=787–793 |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-051351-5.50023-3 |access-date=2025-01-06 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=978-0-08-051351-5 |last2=Williams |first2=Roy D. |last3=Messina |first3=Paul C.|doi=10.1016/b978-0-08-051351-5.50023-3 |url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |title=Sourcebook of parallel computing |date=2009 |publisher=Morgan Kaufmann |isbn=978-1-55860-871-9 |editor-last=Dongarra |editor-first=Jack |edition=Nachdr. |location=San Francisco, Calif.}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Grid+Computing%3A+Making+the+Global+Infrastructure+a+Reality-p-9780470853191 |title=Grid computing: making the global infrastructure a reality |date=2005 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-470-85319-1 |editor-last=Berman |editor-first=Francine |edition=Repr |series=Wiley series in communications networking & distributed systems |location=Chichester Weinheim |editor-last2=Fox |editor-first2=Geoffrey |editor-last3=Hey |editor-first3=Anthony J. G. |editor-last4=Berman |editor-first4=Francine}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Hwang |first1=Kai |title=Distributed and cloud computing: from parallel processing to the Internet of things |last2=Fox |first2=Geoffrey C. |last3=Dongarra |first3=J. J. |date=2012 |publisher=Morgan Kaufmann |isbn=978-0-12-385880-1 |location=Amsterdam; Boston}}

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