Scott B. Baden received the B.S. degree ( magna cum laude) in electrical engineering from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1978, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and is also a Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Prior to this appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Mathematics Group at the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory between 1987 and 1990, taking off ten months to travel the globe. Dr. Baden's current research interests are in the areas of parallel and scientific computation: programming methodology, algorithm design, load balancing, and computer architecture. Dr. Baden is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.