Jan F. Prins Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987 Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
	Professor of Computer Science and Department Chair Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3175, USA Email: prins@cs.unc.edu Tel: +1-919-962-1913 Fax: +1-919-962-1799 Additional contact info and travel schedule.

Research

Interests

Projects

• Mining protein-family specific amino-acid packing patterns
• Carolina Center for Exploratory Genetic Analysis
• Evaluation of Unified Paralllel C (UPC) parallel programming language and compilers.
• High performance computing on graphics processors and the Cell processor
• Problem-solving environment for multiphase subsurface flow and transport phenomena.
• Irregular Parallel Algorithms: algorithmic, language, compilation, and hardware techniques for high performance execution of unstructured problems
• Previous projects: Time-adaptive techniques for accelerating n-body simulations; Software and development for the DeltaSphere 3D Scene Digitizer with Lars Nyland at 3rdTech, Inc.; Parallel Computing Resource for Structural Biology: parallel algorithms and implementations for Molecular Dynamics simulations; Proteus: a language for prototyping parallel algorithms; Architecture-independent design methodology for parallel algorithms; High performance implementation of parallel algorithms; Lattice gas methods for modelling fluid flow and contaminant transport in heterogeneous multiphase systems; CAETI: Software infrastructure for distributed educational applications

Research Collaborators

• Faculty: Wei Wang, Casey Miller (Environmental Science and Engineering), Alex Tropsha (School of Pharmacy) Lars Nyland (Nvidia), Jan Hermans (Biochemistry & Biophysics)
• Post-doctoral researchers: Susan Paulsen. Previous postdocs.
• Students: Stephen Olivier, Jameson Miller (with Morgan Giddings). Previous students.

Publications

• Recent publications organized by topic
• Complete list contained in CV

Conference and journal reviewing

• Co-editor, Journal of Scientific Programming special issue on High Performance Computing on Cell B.E. Processors .
• Editorial Board, Journal of Scientific Programming.

• COMP 633 High Performance Computing (Fall 2007)
• COMP 520 Compilers (Fall 2006)
• COMP 203 Parallel and Distributed Computing (Fall 2005)
• COMP 240 Advanced Compiler Design
• COMP 15 Introduction to Functional Programming
• COMP 290-33 Seminar on High Performance Algorithms