1. Alex Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy and computer science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering.
21 Facts About Alex Szalay
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Alex Szalay graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1969 from Kossuth University, now University of Debrecen, in Hungary.
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Alex Szalay then received a Master of Science in Theoretical Physics 1972 and a Ph.
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In March 2015, Alex Szalay was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University for his accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching.
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Alex Szalay holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences's Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Whiting School of Engineering's Department of Computer Science.
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Alex Szalay is an astrophysicist who has made significant contribution to our understanding of the structure formation and on the nature of the dark matter in the universe.
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Alex Szalay has contributed much to the field of theoretical astrophysics and large scale structure.
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Alex Szalay has developed several novel statistical techniques about optimal estimators for galaxy correlations, power spectra, photometric redshifts for galaxies, optimal co-adding of multicolor images, PCA-based spectral classification of galaxies and Bayesian techniques applied to spatial cross-matching of different astronomical catalogs.
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Alex Szalay has led the development of data-intensive computer architectures covering all aspects of this process from design to implementation.
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Professor Alex Szalay is the Architect for the Science Archive and Chair of the Science Council of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most used astronomy facility in the world today.
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Alex Szalay is a leader in the grass-roots standardization effort to bring the next generation petascale databases in astronomy to a common basis, so that they will be interoperable.
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In support of this goal, Alex Szalay was Project Director of the National Virtual Observatory.
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Alex Szalay collaborated with Simon White and Gerard Lemson to build a database similar to the SkyServer out of the Millennium Simulation, which became the reference cosmology simulation used by astronomers all over the world.
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Alex Szalay was involved in the early projects related to the Computational Grid, in particular the GriPhyN and iVDGL projects, creating testbed applications for high energy physics and astrophysics.
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Alex Szalay has collaborated on high-speed data analytics for more than a decade, and has been part of the TeraFlow project since 2004 and the Open Science Grid.
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Alex Szalay was heavily involved in the Data Conservancy, researching the long-term curation and preservation of scientific data.
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Alex Szalay has coauthored several papers with Gordon Bell, one of the world's premier computer designers, arguing how Amdahl's law can be used to revisit data-intensive computing architectures from first principles.
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Alex Szalay has more recently branched out in other scientific areas focusing on data-intensive computing.
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Alex Szalay has become heavily involved in applying modern data-intensive computational techniques to genomics, in collaboration with Steven Salzberg, Ben Langmead, Sarah Wheelan, and Richard Wilton.
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Alex Szalay has written over 575 papers in various scientific journals, covering areas from theoretical cosmology to observational astronomy, spatial statistics and computer science, and more recently turbulence, environmental science and genomics.
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Alex Szalay has more than 63,805 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 96.