George Chiu is the Senior Manager of Advanced Server Hardware Systems
in the Systems Department at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.  He
received a Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1978 and an MS degree in Computer Science
from Polytechnic University in 1995.  He joined IBM in 1980 after
having been on the staff of Yale University.

Dr. Chiu has worked on picosecond device and internal node
characterization, laser beam and electron beam contactless testing
techniques, functional testing of chips and packages, optical
lithography, display technologies, computer packaging, and
supercomputing.  He is one of the three co-founders of the Blue Gene
project, and he has been in charge of the Blue Gene supercomputer
hardware since 1999.  He has published numerous papers and delivered
several short courses in the areas mentioned above.  He holds fifty
patents internationally.  He received an IBM Corporate Award in 2005,
the Gerstner Award for Client Excellence in 2005, the EE ACE Awards as
part of the Blue Gene/L System Design Team in 2005, three IBM
Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, and eight Invention
Achievement Awards from IBM.  Dr. Chiu is a member of the
International Astronomical Union, and a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers.