Board Of Visitors
 | Sid Karin Professor of Computer Science and Engineering |
Sidney Karin is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering and Director Emeritus of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He was the Founding Director of SDSC, a national laboratory for computational science and engineering.
In the early 1980s, Dr. Karin was one of the leaders in the creation of the Supercomputer Centers program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). This program eventually resulted in the establishment of SDSC and SDSCnet, leading in turn to the establishment of NSFnet, a foundation of the present day internet.
Currently, Dr. Karin serves as a member of the Livermore National Security LLC and the Los Alamos National Security LLC Science and Technology Committees. He also serves as a member of the National Security Agency Advisory Committee Panel on Computer Science and as a member of the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center Policy Board. He also serves as a consultant to several high technology companies. He has served as a member or chair of numerous national policy boards in computing and telecommunications.
As a member of the Program Advisory Group for the Key Studies Development Project of the People's Republic of China, he helped to bring the Internet to the PRC. He has also served as an advisor and consultant on high performance computing to research universities and governmental bodies in several other countries including Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Venezuela and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Karin is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. Dr. Karin has held Distinguished Visiting Scientist positions at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.