Amit Jain, Ph.D.

2018–2024. Chair, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Boise State University.
2020–present. Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Boise State University.
2013–2018. Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Boise State University.
2000–2018. Associate Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering, Boise State University.
2000–2013. Graduate Program Coordinator, Computer Science, College of Engineering, Boise State University.
Jan. 2007– May. 2008. Chief Scientist. Balihoo, Inc.
July 2007–Dec 2008. Interim Chair of Computer Science Department, College of Engineering, Boise State University.
1994–2000. Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boise State University.
Jan. 1992–Jul. 1994. Research Assistant. Center for Parallel Computation, in the School of Computer Science at University of Central Florida. Evaluation, installation and maintenance of various parallel systems.
August 1987–August 1988, Dec. 1988, Summer 1989. Worked at converting High Energy Physics Applications to run on parallel clusters on the Advanced Computing project at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Ph.D. Computer Science. School of Computer Science at University of Central Florida.
B. Tech. Computer Science and Engineering. Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Research Interests: Parallel computing, Beowulf clusters, Parallel application development, Parallel algorithms and data structures, Computer Science Education.
Research Highlights: Applications of parallel computing technology to benefit various areas of research outside of computer science. Projects include working with researchers from Materials Science & Engineering, Biology, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Geophysics, Community and Regional Planning and others.
Received over $11 million in grants (over $5.5 million as PI) from National Science Foundation, Higher Education Research Council, Google, NASA and others.
Supervised 25 masters students, with 21 in the last ten years.
PI of CS10K: IDoCode project funded by NSF. See the project website here: High School Teacher Program The project was highlighted by the White House in 2015.

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