Dr. George is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He is Founder and Director of the NSF Center of High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), a multimillion-dollar national research center and consortium founded in 2007 and based at four major universities with ~30 industry and government partners. He also founded in 1993 and directs the High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory, an academic facility cited by the NSA as a research center of excellence in high-performance computing and networking. His interests focus upon high-performance architectures, networks, systems, services, and applications for reconfigurable, parallel, distributed, and fault-tolerant computing. Dr. George holds graduate faculty status in both the ECE and CISE Departments at Florida.
Professor George has served as lead principal investigator on research contracts and grants totaling well in excess of $10M, as well as many others as a co-PI. With his students, he has authored over 125 refereed journal and conference papers. Dr. George is a member of the editorial board at IEEE Transactions on Computers and previously at the Cluster Computing and Microprocessors and Microsystems journals. He has served as program chair, program co-chair, general chair, and general vice-chair at several IEEE conferences and workshops, as keynote speaker at RSSI07 in Urbana-Champaign, MRSC08 in Belfast, and HPRCTA @ SC09 in Portland, and on dozens of program committees. Additional service includes the role (2001-2009) of founding chair of the university committee on HPC, which is responsible for the formation and strategic oversight of the University of Florida's HPC Center.
Professor George holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Florida State University, an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Central Florida, and a B.S. in computer science from UCF. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Dr. George worked as task leader and senior computer engineer for Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) in Orlando, Florida, as computer engineer for General Electric in Daytona Beach, Florida, and as programmer/analyst at the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando, Florida. Dr. George has taught numerous courses, including graduate courses in parallel and reconfigurable computing, computer architecture, fault-tolerant computing, high-performance computer networks, and software engineering, and undergraduate courses in computer networks, microprocessor-based system design, embedded systems design, digital logic, senior design, circuit analysis, signal and system analysis, fibre optics, and linear controls.
Dr. George has received multiple university and college recognitions for teaching and service, including a University Teacher of the Year Award, a College Doctoral Mentoring Award, a University Service Excellence Award, a University Productivity Award, a State of Florida Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, and an EE Professor of the Year Award from the Florida Eta chapter of Tau Beta Pi. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor societies. In professional societies, he is a member of the IEEE (Senior grade) and its Computer Society, the Society for Computer Simulation (Senior grade), the Association of Computing Machinery, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.