Daniel S. Katz is currently a Principal Member of the Information Systems and Computer Sciences staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology. In May 2006, he will be joining Louisiana State University (LSU) as Assistant Director for Scientific Computing Systems and Software at the Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) and Associate Research Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, while retaining his JPL-affiliation. His research interests include: numerical methods, algorithms, and programming applied to supercomputing, parallel computing, cluster computing, and embedded computing; and fault-tolerant computing. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in 1988, 1990, and 1994, respectively. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and enjoys public service within the HPC community.