Short Biography for Hubertus Franke

Academic Life

Hubertus Franke is a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he conducts research on scalable parallel software and on scalable parallel architectures. Among recent contributions is the implementation of the MPI message-passing library for the IBM SP. Current efforts focus on gang scheduling for distributed memory machines. Hubertus Franke holds the following degrees:

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA in 1992. The research there focused on the design of model-integrated computing environments.
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA in 1989.
• Diploma Degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Karlruhe, Germany, 1987.

Hubertus Franke is member of IEEE and ACM. He was the 1988 recipient of the Research Award of the Computer Science Research Center in Germany.

Private Life

Outside the office I enjoy hiking, camping and other outdoor activities with my wife Kathy. Every now and then I'm brave enough to try repairing some of my broken cars, but those war stories would fill many more pages. Going further back, I was born and grew up in a small town somewhere in the middle of Germany. After finishing my studies in Germany I came to the US and have been in love with it ever since.