Corporate Vice President, Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area
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- Corporate Vice President, Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft
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- Scalable and Multicore Computing Strategist at Microsoft
- Chancellor's Eminent Professor at UNC Chapel Hill
- Founder and Director, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Purdue University
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- University of Missouri-Rolla
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Daniel Reed’s Summary
As Corporate Vice President of the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG),Reed is responsible for R&D on parallel and ultrafast computing. In addition, he spearheads collaborations with university and government researchers and represents Microsoft in related public policy discussions. He also leads Microsoft’s cloud computing research.
He was previously director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Chancellor's Eminent Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reed came to North Carolina from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he led the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the University of Illinois computer science department during a time when more than $100 million in public and private funds were invested to create an information technology quadrangle.
Reed has served as a member of the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and as the chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA). He has aksi served on the President;s Information Technology Advisory Committee, where he chaired the computational science subcommittee. While director of NCSA, he led the National Computational Science Alliance, a nationwide partnership to advance scientific discovery via high performance computing, and was principal investigator and chief architect for the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project, an effort to build and deploy the world's most comprehensive computing infrastructure for open scientific research.
Reed joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 as an assistant professor of computer science and headed the department, one of the most highly ranked computer science departments in the country, from 1996 to 2001. In 2001, the University of Illinois named Reed a recipient of the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professorship in recognition of his distinguished scholarship.
Daniel Reed’s Experience
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Corporate Vice President, Extreme Computing Group
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
XCG combines research and incubation efforts to develop radical new approaches to ultrascale computing hardware, and reliable, secure exascale software systems.
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Daniel Reed’s Honors:
Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, IEEE
Fellow, ACM
Distinguished Alumnus, Purdue University
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