Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

Bill Appelbe is the founding CEO and Chief Scientist of Victorian Partnership For Advanced Computing (VPAC) since 2000. Bill completed an undergraduate honours science degree at Monash University in 1974 then completed a Masters then Doctorate in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in 1978 at the University of British Columbia. Subsequently, he was employed as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego (1979-1986), then as an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech (1987-1998). Bill's research interests are in parallel programming tools, software engineering and software frameworks. Bill's research in parallel programming dates back to the early 1980's with the development of a unique parallel programming static debugging tool, followed by ongoing development of interactive parallelization toolkits and animation tools for parallel programming (funded by the NSF, IBM, and LANL). More recently, Bill and the team at VPAC, in collaboration with Monash and CIG/Caltech since 2001, have been developing frameworks and tools for computational mechanics/geophysics: StGermain, Underworld, Gale, and MADDS. Bill is an honorary faculty member of Monash University and RMIT.