Joel Saltz received his PhD and MD degrees from Duke University in
1985. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of
Maryland, College Park. He leads a research group that has developed
methods that are making it possible to produce portable compilers and
tools to map a broad range of challenging applications on high
performance architectures.  Dr. Saltz is currently developing
techniques that will allow parallel compute and data servers to offer
their services to remote clients and and to compose programs that
execute on any combination of distributed memory, shared memory or
networked machines. His computer science research program has been
motivated by collaborations with biomedical, physical and earth
scientists.