Alan Wagner

Alan Wagner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he has held tenure since 1987. He is a member of the Institute for Computational Intelligence and Cognitive Systems (ICICS). With over 35 years of experience, his research focuses on parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing (HPC), and message-passing systems (particularly MPI). His work emphasizes latency reduction, scalability, and middleware development using protocols like SCTP and TCP.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Toronto (1987)
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Alberta (1983)
  • B.Sc. (Honors) in Mathematics, Dalhousie University (1977)

Research interests include parallel algorithms, distributed systems, and applications in computational finance and data analytics. He has contributed to open-source projects like FG-MPI (a fine-grain MPI implementation) and SCTP-based MPI middleware, enhancing MPI's performance on commodity networks. His work has been supported by grants such as the NSERC I2I Grant (2008) and CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund (2009).

He has advised over 20 M.Sc. students and 2 Ph.D. students. His teaching includes courses on parallel algorithms (CPSC 521) and computer networking (CPSC 317). He currently chairs UBC's Computer Science Graduate Admissions Committee.