Andrew A. Chien

Vice President, Corporate Technology Group
Director, Intel Research
INTEL CORPORATION

Andrew Chien is vice president of the Corporate Technology Group and director of Research for Intel Corporation. Chien previously served as the Science Applications International Corporation Endowed Chair Professor in the department of computer science and engineering, and the founding director of the Center for Networked Systems at the University of California at San Diego. CNS is a university-industry alliance focused on developing technologies for robust, secure, and open networked systems.

For more than 20 years, Chien has been a global leader in research and the development of high-performance computing systems. His expertise includes networking, Grids, high performance clusters, distributed systems, computer architecture, high speed routing networks, compilers, and object oriented programming languages. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has published over 130 technical papers.

From 1990 to 1998, Chien was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During that time, he held joint appointments with both the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), working on large-scale clusters. In 1999 he co-founded Entropia, Inc., an enterprise desktop Grid company. Chien received his bachelor's in electrical engineering, master's in computer science, and Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.