Biographical Sketch:

William Gropp received his B.S. in mathematics from Case Western Reserve
University in 1977, an M.S. in physics from the University of Washington in
1978, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1982.  He held the
positions of assistant (1982-1988) and associate (1988-1990) professor in the
Computer Science Department of Yale University.  In 1990, he joined the
numerical analysis group at Argonne, where he is a senior computer scientist
and associate director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, a
senior scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Chicago, and a senior fellow in the Argonne-University of Chicago Computation
Institute.  His research interests are in parallel computing, software for
scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential
equations.  Dr. Gropp has played a major role in the development of the MPI
message-passing standard.  He is coauthor of MPICH, the most widely used
implementation of MPI, and was involved in the MPI Forum as a chapter author
for both MPI-1 and MPI-2.  He has written many books and papers on MPI,
including "Using MPI" and "Using MPI-2".  He has developed adaptive mesh
refinement and domain decomposition methods with a focus on scalable parallel
algorithms; these algorithms and their application to significant scientific
problems are discussed in a book he coauthored, entitled "Parallel Multilevel
Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations."  Gropp is also one of
the designers of the PETSc parallel numerical library and has developed
efficient and scalable parallel algorithms for the solution of linear and
nonlinear equations.  In addition, he is involved in several other advanced
computing projects, including performance modeling, data structure
modification for ultra-high-performance computers, and development of
component-based software to promote interoperability among numerical toolkits.