Professor Andrew Lumsdaine is an Associate Director of the Digital Science Center and Director of the Open Systems Lab. Lumsdaine received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992 and from 1992 through 2001, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include computational science and engineering, parallel and distributed computing, software engineering, generic programming, mathematical software, and numerical analysis. Professor Lumsdaine is a member of ACM, IEEE, and SIAM, as well as the MPI Forum, the BLAS technical forum and the ISO C++ standards committee. In 1995, he received the Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.