Professor
University of Illinois
Mechanical Science and Engineering
fischerp@illinois.edu

Paul Fischer is a Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from M.I.T., M.S. from Stanford, and B.S. from Cornell). He was the first recipient of the Center for Research in Parallel Computation prize fellowship at CalTech. Fischer is a recipient of the Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance computing and has published over 120 articles in the area, including a book on high-order numerical methods for flow simulation. He wrote the first commercially available software for distributed memory parallel computers. His open source spectral element code, Nek5000, is used for fluid dynamics and combustion simulation by more than 200 researchers worldwide and has scaled to over a million processors.