Lastovetsky, Alexey L. 1957-

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LASTOVETSKY, Alexey L. 1957-

PERSONAL:

Born August 6, 1957, in Zaporozh'e, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.; son of Leonid and Lyudmila Lastovetsky; married September 5, 1986; wife's name Gulnara (an account manager); children: Olga, Oksana. Education: Moscow Aviation Institute, M.Sc., 1980, Ph.D., 1986; Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc., 1997; graduated from International Technology Institute, 1999. Religion: Russian Orthodox.

ADDRESSES:

Home—County Wicklow, Ireland. Office—School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. E-mail[email protected].

CAREER:

Moscow Aviation Institute, Baikhonour, U.S.S.R. (now Russia), associate professor, 1986-88; Moscow State University, Moscow, U.S.S.R., senior scientist, 1989-95; Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for System Programming, Moscow, principal scientist, 1995-99; Iona Technologies, Dublin, Ireland, senior member of technical staff, 1999-2001; National University of Ireland, University College, Dublin, lecturer in computer science and informatics, 2001—. Colorado State University, Abell Distinguished Lecturer in Computer Engineering, 2004; Dublin IBM Center for Advanced Studies, IBM faculty fellow, 2004—.

MEMBER:

IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Honor award, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999, for professional achievements; achievement award, International Multi-Conference on Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 2001; SFI Investigator award, Science Foundation Ireland, 2004.

WRITINGS:

Accuracy Analysis of Floating Point Computer Arithmetics, Moscow Aviation Institute (Moscow, U.S.S.R.), 1998.

Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks, John Wiley (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to books; also contributor of more than thirty articles to scientific journals. Member of editorial board, Parallel Computing; coeditor of special issues, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, 2004, and Parallel Computing, 2005. Member of editorial board, Programming and Computer Software, 1995—.

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