Dr. Andrew Rau-Chaplin

Dr. Rau-Chaplin received a M.C.S. and Ph.D. from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1990 and 1993, respectively. From 1993 to 1994 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at DIMACS - a National Science Foundation center run by Princeton University, Rutgers, and AT&T Bell labs. In 1994 he joined the Technical University of Nova Scotia and since 1993 has been an Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University.

He is interested in the application of parallel computing to a wide range of problem domains including data mining, bioinformatics, computational geometry/CAD, and catastrophe modeling. His parallel computing research program tends to be almost evenly divided between theoretical studies, where the focus is on developing asymptotically optimal or near optimal algorithms in a given complexity model, and implementation work which is used to guide and "ground" the theoretical work.