College of Engineering Dean Amy S. Fleischer is pleased to announce Chris Lupo, Ph.D., has been named the founding director of The Noyce School of Applied Computing.
As the founding director, Lupo will work in partnership with the faculty, Dean Fleischer and the entire university community to establish and execute a broad and inspirational vision for the school, and to foster interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities for faculty and departments involved in applied computing across the university.
Lupo has been a faculty member at Cal Poly since 2008, most recently serving as chair of the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department. His teaching and research specialties include Parallel and High-Performance Computing (HPC), GPU Computing, Heterogeneous and Distributed Computing, Performance Analysis and Computer Architecture. His research and teaching have been recognized by NVIDIA Corporation in the form of both NVIDIA GPU Research Center and NVIDIA GPU Teaching Center awards. Other support includes funding and equipment awards from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Sandia National Laboratories, Google, Western Digital, Lockheed Martin and Sun Microsystems.
Lupo earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Fresno.
He will begin his appointment during the summer of 2023.
