Geoffrey C. Fox
Fox was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1964, he was the senior wrangler at Cambridge, the best performer in the mathematics tripos. In the same year, he also played in the annual chess match against Oxford University. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University in 1967 and held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University before becoming being appointed professor at Indiana University, where he is director of the Digital Science Center and associate dean for research and graduate studies at the School of Informatics and Computing  He has supervised the Ph.D. of 65 students and published over 1200 publications in physics and computer science according to Google Scholar, including his book "Parallel Computing Works!". He currently works to apply computer science to bioinformatics, defense, earthquake and ice-sheet science, particle physics and chemical informatics. He was Director of FutureSystems, which was a cyberinfrastructure test to enable development of new approaches to scientific computing before it closed in December, 2021. He is involved in several projects to enhance the capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions. In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society ""for  contributions centered on novel uses of computers; firstly, in the phenomenological comparison of theory and experiment in particle physics, and secondly, in the design and use of parallel computers"".