Jack Dongarra

Jack Dongarra

FRS
Jack Dongarra; FRS
	Dongarra in 2022
Born	July 18, 1950; Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	Chicago State University (BS); Illinois Institute of Technology (MS); University of New Mexico (PhD);
Known for	EISPACK, LINPACK, BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2023); ACM Turing Award (2021); IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (2020); Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2019); SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2019); ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award (2013); IEEE Charles Babbage Award (2011); SIAM SIAG/Supercomputing Career Prize (2010); SIAM Fellow (2009); IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing (2008); IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award (2003); Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2001); ACM Fellow (2001); IEEE Fellow (1999); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science; Computational science; Parallel computing
Institutions	University of Tennessee; University of New Mexico; Rice University; Argonne National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; University of Manchester
Thesis	Improving the Accuracy of Computed Matrix Eigenvalues (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Cleve Moler
Website	netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/

Jack Joseph Dongarra FRS (born July 18, 1950) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the American University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Turing Fellowship in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, and is an adjunct professor and teacher in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He served as a faculty fellow at the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (2014–2018). Dongarra is the founding director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2021.

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