I obtained my B.S.E.E. at Purdue in 1983, my M.S.E.E. at the University of Illinois in 1987 under the direction of Ed Davidson, and my PhD at the University of Illinois in 1989 under the direction of Pen-Chung Yew. I then did a 14-month post-doc at the European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation (CERFACS) in Toulouse, France, under the direction of Iain Duff and started at the Univ. of Florida in December, 1990. Member of ACM, SIAM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, SIAM-SC, SIAM-OPT, and SIAM-CSE. (my degrees are in electrical engineering, I teach computer science, and I do applied math...). I've authored two books: Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems, published by SIAM, and the MATLAB Primer, published by CRC Press (co-authored by Kermit Sigmon).
I was on sabbatical (2002-2003) as Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford (in the Scientific Computing / Computational Mathematics Program) and as a Visiting Staff Member at NERSC (Nat. Energy Research Scientific Computing Laboratory), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
I am a member of the SIAM Council, and an associate editor of Computational Optimization and Applications.
I'm a frequent consultant for The MathWorks in Natick, Massachussetts, and a few other companies. I serve on the Board of Advisors of Accelogic.
Finally, I've recently been writing poetry, both fun math poetry (think Dr. Suess plus math) and more serious poetry.