Henry Neeman, Ph.D. is the Director of the OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) at the University of Oklahoma, an adjunct assistant professor of Computer Science, and a research scientist at the Center for Analysis & Prediction of Storms. He received his B.S. in computer science and his B.A. in statistics with a minor in mathematics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1987, his M.S. in CS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and his Ph.D. in CS from UIUC in 1996. Prior to coming to OU, Dr. Neeman was a postdoctoral research associate and graduate research assistant at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, and also served as a graduate research assistant at the Center for Supercomputing Research & Development at UIUC.
In addition to his own teaching and research, Dr. Neeman collaborates with dozens of OU research teams, helping them to apply supercomputing technologies and techniques to their investigations in fields such as weather forecasting, bioinformatics, high energy physics, nanotechnology, data mining, seismology, cosmology, petroleum reservoir management, river basin modeling, coastal modeling, and aerospace vehicle design. He serves as an ad hoc advisor to student, staff and faculty researchers in many of these fields. Dr. Neeman also teaches a series of workshops on supercomputing, titled "Supercomputing in Plain English," directed at an audience of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff not only in computer science but especially in a variety of science and engineering fields.
Dr. Neeman's research interests include high performance computing, scientific computing, parallel and distributed computing, structured adaptive mesh refinement, scientific visualization and computer science education.