Amit Jain: Chair, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Boise State University.

Research Interests: Parallel computing, Beowulf clusters, Parallel application development, Parallel algorithms and data structures, Computer Science Education.

Research Highlights: Applications of parallel computing technology to benefit various areas of research outside of computer science.

Projects include working with researchers from Materials Science & Engineering, Biology, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Geophysics, Community and Regional Planning and others.