Curriculum Vitae

Bruce M. Boghosian

211 Bromfield-Pearson Hall, Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts 02155, U.S.A.
bruce.boghosian@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3054 (direct), (617) 627-3966 (fax)

Employment History

• Tufts University, Medford, MA: Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics (2000 - present, promoted to rank of Professor in 2003, promoted to Chair in 2006); Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science (2003 - present).
• Boston University, Boston, MA: Research Associate Professor, Center for Computational Science and Department of Physics (1994 - 2003).
• Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA: Senior Scientist, Mathematical Sciences Research Group (1986 - 1994).
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA: Physicist, Plasma Theory Group (1978 - 1986).

Visiting Positions

• École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France: Visiting Researcher (7 April - 7 May 2008).
• Peking University, Beijing, China: Visiting Professor, School of Engineering, gave half-semester course entitled ``Topological Fluid Dynamics'' (5 November - 12 December 2007).
• University College London: EPSRC Visiting Fellow, Centre for Computational Science, Department of Chemistry (2002-present).
• University of California, Berkeley: Visiting Professor, Department of Physics (1996 - 1997).
• International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy: Visiting Scientist, Condensed Matter Division (Summer, 1996).
• Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre, Cambridge, UK: Consultant (1994 - 1998).
• University of California, Davis: Research Scientist, Department of Applied Science (1995).
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Fusion Center: Visiting Scientist (1994 - 1995).
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science: Visiting Scientist, Information Mechanics Group (1993 - 1994).

Education

• University of California, Davis: Doctor of Philosophy degree, Department of Applied Science and Engineering (1980 - 1986, degree conferred in March, 1987). Thesis research was conducted primarily at the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Bachelor of Science degree, Physics; Master of Science degree, Nuclear Engineering (1973 - 1978, both degrees conferred in 1978). Thesis research was carried out at the M.I.T. Plasma Fusion Center. Graduate traineeship from U.S. Department of Energy (1977-1978).

Awards and Honors

• Co-recipient of Department of Energy Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award (2008).
• Elected as a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (2008).
• Work on Grid Computing featured on web site of British Embassy to the U.S. See:
  http://www.britainusa.com/science/articles$_-$show$_-$2.asp?a=7648
• Co-recipient of HPC Challenge award for Most Innovative Data-Intensive Computation, Supercomputing 2003, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (2003)
• Recipient of Undergraduate Initiative in Teaching (UNITE) award, College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering, Tufts University (2002)
• Elected to Fellowship of the American Physical Society (2000)
• Elected secretary-treasurer of the American Physical Society Division of Computational Physics (1995-1997); reelected (1998-2000)

Patents

• Patent number 7,343,555, ``System and Method for Delivery of Documents over a Computer Network,'' with J. Ko and C. Traynor, 11 March 2008.

Editorial Work

• Guest Editor of two special issues on Scientific Applications of Grid Computing, Computing in Science and Engineering, (September/October and November/December 2005).
• Member of editorial board of Physica A (2001 - present)
• Member of editorial board of Computing in Science and Engineering (2001 - present)
• Book Review Editor, Computing in Science and Engineering (2003 - 2005)
• Member of editorial board of the International Journal of Modern Physics C - Physics and Computers (1997 - present)

Selected Funded Grants

• NSF Major Research Instrumentation program, ``Acquisition of a Scientific Visualization Facility'' (2006-2009).
• NSF, Computing Division (2005-2006), ``Cross-Site Runs and Computational Steering,'' subcontracted to Argonne National Laboratory.
• ARO, Physics Division, Quantum Information Science, basic research grant (2004-2007) to establish Center for Quantum Algorithm Design at Tufts University.
• AFOSR, Directorate of Mathematics and Space Sciences, Division of Computational Mathematics, basic research grant (1995-1996); renewed (1997-1998); renewed (1999-2000); renewed (2001-2003); renewed (2004-2007).
• DARPA QuIST grant subcontract providing postdoctoral position (2002-2006), subcontracted to Texas A&M University.
• NSF PACI/NRAC grant of supercomputer time from Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (2003-2005).
• NATO travel grant (1995-1996); renewed (1997-1998).

Selected Professional Service

• Member Program Committee, ``Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE),'' to be held in conjunction with the 18th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-18), Munich, Germany (9-10 June 2009).
• Member Program Committee for the Sixth International Workshop on the Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems, held in conjunction with the ICCS meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (25-27 May 2009)
• Member Organizing Committee, ``Plasma Theory, Wave Kinetics, and Nonlinear Dynamics,'' University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California (5-7 October 2007)
• Participant, National Science Foundation Visualization Workshop, Arlington, Virginia (27-28 September 2007)
• Participant, National Science Foundation Cyber-Fluids Workshop, Arlington, Virginia (19-20 July 2007)
• Chair of Visiting Assessment Committee, Center for Computational Science, Boston University (September, 2005)
• Program Review panel member, U.S. Department of Energy, Albuquerque, New Mexico (May, 2005)
• Organizing committee, International Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluids: member (1996-1997); chair (1997-1998); member (1998-1999); member (2002-present); chair of local organizing committee (2004)
• Member Organizing Committee for the Second International Workshop on Multiphysics and Multiscale Systems, held in conjunction with the ICCS meeting (22-25 May 2005)
• Member of Nicholas Metropolis Award Committee, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society (2002-2005), chair (2003-2004)
• Member of Fellowship Committee, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society (2002)
• Member of Program Committee of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99)
• Member of APS organizing committee for Conference on Computational Physics (CCP99), March, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia
• Member of APS organizing committee for Physics Computing '97, August 25-28, 1997, Santa Cruz, California
• Member of American Mathematical Society, American Physical Society, Mathematical Association of America, and Sigma Xi

Selected Service within University

• Principal Investigator, Center for Scientific Visualization, Tufts University (inaugurated on 8 February 2008).
• Member, Faculty Subcommittee for Visiting Lecturer Selection, Tufts Experimental College (April 2007)
• Member of advisory committee to the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2007-present).
• Chair of the Department of Mathematics (2006-present)
• Faculty representative to Tufts University Information Technology Council (2005-2006).
• Member of Tufts University Faculty Research and Award Committee (2001-2006).
• Member of Tufts University Scholarship Committee (2003-present).
• Member of Curriculum or Graduate Committee, Department of Mathematics (continuous basis).
• Chair of Hiring Committees, Tufts University Department of Mathematics (2003-2004 and 2005-2006).
• Speaker at events for prospective students held by Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Tufts University (2004 and 2005).