February 11, 2003

Mueller Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Mueller (Photo: coutesy of Frank Mueller)

Dr. Frank Mueller, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective June 1, 2003, to run through May 31, 2008.  The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $400,000 in funding over the next five years.  Mueller will use the award to support his research project entitled, “Exploiting Binary Rewriting to Analyze and Alleviate Memory Bottlenecks for Scientific Applications.”

Mueller’s research interests include programming languages, parallel and distributed systems, performance analysis and real-time systems.  He is a member of the Center for Embedded Systems Research (CESR) executive council at NC State University.  Prior to his current employment, he was a researcher at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.  He was on the faculty at Humboldt University of Berlin from 1995 to 2000.

From 1989 to 1991 Mueller received a Fulbright stipend and a stipend from the Federation of German-American Clubs.  He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE-CS) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

Mueller received his bachelor’s degree from the Technical University of Berlin in 1987, his master’s degree from Florida State University in 1991 and his doctorate from Florida State University in 1994, all in computer science.  He joined the NC State faculty in 2001.

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