About me
Manager, Biomolecular Dynamics and Scalable Modeling Group
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Robert S. Germain manages the Biomolecular Dynamics and Scalable Modeling group within the Computational Biology Center at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received his A.B. in physics from Princeton University in 1982 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University. After receiving his doctorate in 1989, Germain joined the Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member in the Physical Sciences Department and later the VLSI/Scalable Parallel Systems Packaging Department. From 1995 to 1998, he was project leader for development of a large scale fingerprint identification system using an indexing scheme (FLASH) developed at IBM Research. Since 2000, Dr. Germain has been responsible for the science and associated application portions of the Blue Gene project. His current research interests include the parallel implementation of algorithms for high performance scientific computing, the development of new programming models for parallel computing, and applications of high performance computing to challenging scientific problems in computational biology. Dr. Germain is a member of the IEEE. the ACM, and the American Physical Society.
Last updated 9 Jun 2006