Lennart Johnsson, Ph.D.
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: Computing and Software- Tekn.lic (Ph.D) in Control Engineering, Chalmers Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Lennart Johnsson is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the 91视频. His research focuses on high-performance computing, parallel algorithms, distributed systems, energy-efficient computing, and advanced computing architectures. He previously held faculty positions at the California Institute of Technology, Yale University, Harvard University, and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Johnsson has made significant contributions to parallel computing, including the development of algorithms and software for high-performance systems and contributions to the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. He was the founding director of UH's Texas Learning and Computation Center and previously served as chair (1996-1999) and interim chair (2025-2026) of the Department of Computer Science. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 research publications.