BenchCouncil Achievement Award

摘要

Tony Hey has a doctorate in particle physics from the University of Oxford. After a career in physics that included research positions at Caltech, MIT and CERN, and a professorship at the University of Southampton, he became interested in parallel computing and moved into computer science. His group was one of the first to build and explore the development of parallel software for message-passing distributed memory computers. He was one of the authors of the first draft of the MPI message-passing standard. Tony led the UK eScience initiative in 2001 before joining Microsoft in 2005 as Vice-President for Technical Computing. He returned to work in the UK in 2015 as Chief Data Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and leads the 'Scientific Machine Learning' group. Tony is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Academy of Engineering.