Stephen Fink 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering 
University of California, San Diego 
9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/sfink 

Home Address 
3365 Lebon Drive Apt. 303 
San Diego, CA 92122 
Ph: (619) 535-1269 (H) 
Ph: (619) 534-5913 (O) 
sfink@cs.ucsd.edu 
 
 
Objective A Computer Science research or advanced development position.
Research Interests Run-time systems, programming languages, algorithms, and computer architecture for high performance and scientific computation.
Education  University of California, San Diego 
Ph. D. in Computer Science 
M.S. in Computer Science 
GPA: 3.93 

Duke University 
B.S. in Computer Science, magna cum laude  
2nd major: Mathematics, fulfilled B.S. degree requirements 
GPA: 3.79

San Diego, CA
expected June1998
Dec. 1994


Durham, NC
May 1992

Honors  DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship 
California MICRO Fellowship 
Member, Phi Beta Kappa 
Duke University Dean's List with Distinction 
1994-98
1992-93
1991
4 years
Employment Summer Practicum 
(Center for Computational Science and Engineering, 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA) 
Designed and implemented a software infrastructure to support parallel adaptive multigrid methods. 
 
Research Assistant 
(Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UC-San Diego) 
Developed and implemented new parallel cluster identification algorithms for Ising model simulations. 

Teaching Assistant 
(Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,UC-San Diego) 
Teaching assistant for undergraduate computer architecture class. 

Associate Engineer 
(HaL Computer Systems, Campbell, CA) 
Assisted in development of compilers and run-time system for HaL's 64-bit superscalar SPARC v9 processor. 
 
Consultant 
Summer Intern 
(Merck, Inc. Rahway, NJ) 
Assisted in development of database systems to support clinical drug trials. 

June-Sept. 1995
 
 
 
 
 

June 1993-Dec.1994
Apr.-Aug. 1994
 
 

Jan.-Mar. 1994
 
 
 
June-Sept. 1992
 
 
 

May-Aug. 1991
May-Aug. 1990

Publications S. J. Fink, S. B. Baden, and S. R. Kohn, "Efficient Run-time Support for Irregular Block-Structured Applications", to appear in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.  

J. H. Merlin, S. B. Baden, S. J. Fink and B. M. Chapman, "Multiple data parallelism with HPF and KeLP", to appear in Proceedings HPCN '98, (Amsterdam, Netherlands), April 1998. 

S. J. Fink and S. B. Baden, "Runtime Support for Multi-Tier Programming of Block-Structured Applications on SMP Clusters",  in Proceedings of the 1997 International Scientific Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments Conference, (Marina del Rey, CA), December 1997. 

S. J. Fink, C. Huston, S. B. Baden, and K. Jansen, "Parallel cluster identification for multidimensional lattices", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 8, n. 11, November 1997. 

S. B. Baden, R. Schreiber, K. S. Gatlin, S. J. Fink, "A preliminary evaluation of HPF", Proceedings of the Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, (Minneapolis, MN), March 1997. 

W. G. Griswold, R. Wolski, S. B. Baden, S. J. Fink and S. R. Kohn, "Programming language requirements for the next millennium", ACM Computing Surveys, v. 28A, n. 4, December 1996. 

S. J. Fink, S. B. Baden and S. R. Kohn, "Flexible communication mechanisms for dynamic structured applications", in Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems IRREGULAR `96, (Santa Barbara, CA), August 1996. 

S. J. Fink and S. B. Baden, "Run-time data distribution for block-structured applications on distributed memory computers", in Proceedings of the Seventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, (San Francisco, CA), February 1995. 

S. B. Baden, S. R. Kohn, and S. J. Fink, "Programming with LPARX", in Proceedings of the Intel Supercomputer User's Group Meeting, (San Diego, CA), June 1994. 

S. J. Fink, S. B. Baden, and K. Jansen, "Cluster identification on a distributed memory multiprocessor", in Proceedings of the 1994 Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, (Knoxville, TN), May 1994. 

Professional Activities member ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society 

Served as reviewer for: 
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems  
    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing  
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering  
    International Parallel Processing Symposium 
    Supercomputing Conference 
    International Conference on Supercomputing 
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques 
    ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

 references available upon request