Alan George

Alan George is a Professor and Department Chair at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering. He holds the R&H Mickle Endowed Chair and directs the NSF-funded SHREC (Space, High-performance, and REsilient Computing) Center, a $1M/year Industry-University Cooperative Research Center with 40+ partners. His research focuses on high-performance architectures, reconfigurable systems, and dependable computing for space and supercomputing applications. Dr. George has over $30M in sponsored research and authored 200+ refereed publications with his students.

Education: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Florida State University (1987-1991). Prior to Pitt, he spent 20 years at the University of Florida, founding SHREC (then CHREC) and establishing the university's national-scale supercomputing center.

Research Interests:

• Reconfigurable and parallel computing architectures
• Space-resilient computing systems
• High-performance distributed systems
• Dependable mission-critical networks

Awards:

• IEEE Fellow (2017)
• NSF Schwarzkopf IUCRC Innovation Award (2020)
• University of Pittsburgh Service & Productivity Awards

Grants & Advising: Principal investigator on $30M+ research projects. Advised numerous graduate students recognized at department/university levels. SHREC's work bridges academia-industry collaboration in resilient computing.

Labs/Teams: Founder and Director of SHREC, which operates as a hub for cutting-edge research in space computing and high-performance systems.