Presenter

Dr. Chien is currently a visiting Professor at Stanford University. Andrew A Chien is the William Eckhardt Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago and Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratories. He has led the Zero-carbon Cloud project since 2015, and is well-known for his research on datacenters, renewable energy and sustainability, cloud resource management and software, large-scale system architecture, and graph computing architecture. He is leader of the IARPA funded “UpDown System Project”, designing breakthrough scalable graph analytics systems. Chien has received numerous recognitions for his research. Dr. Chien currently serves on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee and CISE/OAC Advisory Committee and DARPA ISAT. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. He served as EiC of Communications of the ACM, 2017-2022, and Vice President of Research at Intel Corporation from 2005-2010. He has served on the Faculty of the University of Illinois and as SAIC Chair Professor of University of California, San Diego. He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.