Jack Joseph Dongarra

Jack Joseph Dongarra FRS (born July 18, 1950) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the American University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Turing Fellowship in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, and is an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He served as a faculty fellow at the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (2014–2018). Dongarra is the founding director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2021.

Awards

• Turing Award (2021)
• Computer Pioneer Award (2020)
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2019)
• SIAM Fellow (2009)
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2001)
• ACM Fellow (2001)
• IEEE Fellow (1999)
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994)