David O'Hallaron is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and
the Director of the Intel Research Pittsburgh lab. He received his
Ph.D. from University of Virginia.  After a stint at GE, he joined the
Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1989.
				   
Prof. O'Hallaron works in the broad area of computer systems, with
specific interests in scientific computing, computational database
systems, data-intensive computing, and virtualization. He is currently
leading the Carnegie Mellon Quake project, which is developing the
capability to predict the motion of the ground during strong
earthquakes. He is also leading an effort to develop Computational
Database Systems that represent massive scientific datasets as
database structures and that perform the scientific computing process
by creating, querying, and updating these databases. He has also
worked on systems such as Internet Suspend/Resume that use virtual
machines for user mobility and enterprise client management.

In 1998 the CMU School of Computer Science awarded Prof. O'Hallaron
and the other members of the CMU Quake Project the Allen Newell Medal
for Research Excellence. In 2000, a benchmark he developed for the
Quake project, 183.equake, was selected by SPEC for inclusion in the
influential CPU2000 and CPU2000omp (Open MP) benchmark suites.  In
November, 2003, Prof. O'Hallaron and the other members of the Quake
team won the 2003 Gordon Bell Prize, the top international prize in
high performance computing. In 2004, he was awarded the Herbert Simon
Award for Teaching Excellence by the CMU School of Computer
Science. In 2005, he received the Outstanding Research Award from the
CMU College of Engineering. In 2006, Prof O'Hallaron and the other
members of the Quake project won the HPC Analytics Challenge at SC06,
beating out finalist teams from a DOE National Lab and a consortium of
Japanese companies and universities.

With Randy Bryant, he published a new computer systems textbook
(Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Prentice Hall, 2003)
that has been adopted by numerous schools worldwide.