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Allen Malony
Dr. Allen D. Malony is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. Malony received the B.S. and M.S. degress in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 1990. From 1981 to 1985, Malony worked at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. From 1986 to 1991, he was a Senior Software Engineer at the University of Illinois Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, where he was the leader of the performance evaluation project for the Cedar multiprocessor. In 1991, Malony joined the faculty at Oregon, spending his first year as a Fulbright Research Scholar and visiting Professor at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. Dr. Malony was awarded the NSF National Young Investigator award in 1994. In 1999 he was a Fulbright Research Scholar to Austria resident at the University of Vienna. Dr. Malony was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2002. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2003.

Dr. Malony's research interests are in parallel computing, performance analysis, supercomputing, and scientific software environments. He is the Director of the Performance Research Laboratory at the University of Oregon where he manages research and development projects funded by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense. He has extensive experience in performance benchmarking and characterization of high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and has developed performance evaluation tools for a variety of parallel machines.
In particular, Dr. Malony's research group develops the TAU Performance System (TM), a leading open source parallel performance tool suite in use by many academic, govermental, and industrial projects around the world. More information on TAU can be found here: http://tau.uoregon.edu

Dr. Malony's research interests extend to computing and information processing systems for neuroscience research. He is the Director of the NeuroInformatics Center (NIC) at the University of Oregon. The NIC is developing advanced integrated neuroimaging tools that combine EEG and MRI methods for next-generation brain analysis. Grid technologies and high-performance computing are being used by the NIC to prototype network-based systems for medical service delivery.

ParaTools, Inc. is a company founded by Dr. Malony and Dr. Sameer Shende to provide consulting expertise in the area of parallel and distributed computing, and performance evaluation tools, particularly in respect to the open source TAU Performance System (TM). ParaTools assists in applying performance tools to analyze parallel applications and optimize program performance. ParaTools also conducts training workshops in the area of parallel technologies. Dr. Malony is the CEO of ParaTools, Inc.

Dr. Malony is also a founder and Chief Scientist at Cerebral Data Systems, a company specializing in advanced neuroinformatics and internet-based neurological services.