Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy)
Professor of Physics and Astronomy (by courtesy)

Alex K. Jones received the BS degree in 1998 in physics from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, USA, and the MS and PhD degrees in 2000 and 2002, respectively, in ECE from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. He is a Full Professor (with tenure) of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Physics & Astronomy (by courtesy) at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He is currently on leave from Pitt serving as the Deputy Division Director of the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division at the US NSF.  Previously he was  a Program Director and Cluster Lead for the Computer Systems Research (CSR) Cluster at the NSF in the CNS Division of the CISE Directorate.  Dr. Jones' research interests include compilation for configurable systems and architectures, scaled and emerging memory, reliability, fault tolerance, quantum computing, and sustainable computing. He is the author of more than 200 publications in these areas. His research is funded by the NSF, DARPA, NSA, ARO, LPS, foundation grants, and industry. He is an active member of program committees in the computer architecture, design automation, and sustainable computing areas.  He is the steering committee chair for the IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers and Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems Journal.   He is a fellow of the IEEE, senior member of the ACM, and member of the AAAS.