Advising
Slides presented on 10/25/2005
Short Biography:
Frank Luk is Professor of
Computer Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
New York.
He grew up in Hong Kong, where he received his primary and secondary school education. He came
to the USA in 1969 to attend the California Institute of
Technology, from which he graduated with a B.S. degree in Mathematics in 1972.
He did his graduate work at Stanford University, and received an M.S. degree in Statistics in 1974
and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1978.
Luk has worked in Upstate New
York since August 1978. He joined Cornell University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science upon
graduation from Stanford. At Cornell, he was promoted to Professor of
Electrical Engineering in 1988. He
left Cornell and joined Rensselaer as Professor and Chairman of Computer Science in
January 1992. He served for more
than eight years as Chairman, until June 2000. Luk lectures nationally and
internationally. He was Professor of Computer Science for three years at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, from 1993 to 1994 and
from 2000 to 2002. For the calendar year of 2004, Luk was a Legislative Fellow
working in the area of science and technology in the Washington Office of
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Luk works in parallel and
distributed scientific computing. His research was supported by the National
Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, and
the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He has also consulted for various
industrial companies. He has chaired an annual SPIE conference on signal
processing algorithms, architectures, and implementations for almost 20 years,
starting in 1987.
Luk joined the editorial
board of the journal Applied Numerical Mathematics in 1998, and is presently a
senior editor.
He has been on the editorial
board of Integration, the VLSI journal, since 1991. He was an editor of the SIAM Journal on
Matrix Analysis and Applications from 1989 to 1998.