Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
- Research
My research is in the cross-disciplinary, and inherently collaborative, area of Computational
Science. I am directly interested in the application of high performance computing to the
acceleration of computationally intensive algorithms (to ensure rapid analysis of large quantities
of data and/or simulation of very big systems) as well as the development of methods for effective
visualization of the resultant complex scientific data.
As I have training in Computational Chemistry,
much of my research involves using and building software tools to support research into this
area. However, as many of the problems faced in Computational Science are similar across
the disciplines (e.g. similar n-body particle simulation algorithms, problems with production and
processing of large quantities of data), I am involved in collaborations to apply the same methods
to other areas, such as Astronomy.
