Paul Farrell received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in the field of Numerical Computation and Analysis from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1978 and 1983 respectively. He was a Lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology (1983-1985) before joining Kent State University as an assistant professor of Computer Science in 1985. While at the Dublin Institute of Technology, he was supported by the European Community, under a industry/university co-operation grant on semi-conductor device simulation. In 1986, he was a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences for a two week visit. He is currently sole principal investigator on a NSF grant for Uniform Numerical Methods for Singularly Perturbed Equations, which involves collaboration with Ireland and Russia. He is also principal investigator on a NSF CISE equipment grant for a Fibre Channel network, and on an NSF New Technologies grant for A Steering and Visualization Environment, a co-principal investigator of the NSF Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM), and Kent liasion for OCARNet - the Ohio Communication and Computing ATM Research Network. In addition he is an associate member of the Institute for Computational Mathematics and a member of the IMACS Technical Committee on Partial Differential Equations. He is currently Chair of the University Council on Technology, Applications Coordinator for Internet II for Kent State and Director of Electronic Publications for Institute for Numerical Computation and Analysis (INCA). He has acted as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program and to the Irish Higher Education Development Cooperation Organization (HEDCO).
His research interests are parallel numerical computation and algorithms, application of numerical methods to singularly perturbed differential equations, semi-conductor devices, Navier-Stokes equations, and liquid crystal problems, scientific visualization, data communications and networking, automatic code generation for parallel architectures, application of expert systems in numerical computing, and mathematical text processing. He is a member of ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, the Institute for Numerical Computation and Analysis (INCA).
Dr. Farrell is a prominent researcher in the area of the numerical solution of singularly perturbed equations. More recently he has undertaken research in parallel algorithms, for liquid crystal problems and for the solution of linear equations. He has published 37 papers, 25 in the last 5 years, with a further 1 in press, and in addition has acted as organizer and chair for special sessions on singularly perturbed equations and on parallel algorithms at international conferences including BAIL V, the 12th IMACS World Congress, and BAIL VI. He is currently engaged in collaborative work with 13 researchers in countries such as China, Ireland, New Zealand, Russia, and Yugoslavia, in addition to the U.S. In addition to regional and national conferences and colloquia, he has presented talks at international conferences in China, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. and given colloquia in Ireland, Germany, Tanzania, Thailand, the U.S.A. and Yugoslavia.
IEEE Trans. on Parl. & Distr. Syst., SIAM Jour. of Numer. Anal., Numerische Mathematik, IMA Jour. of Numer. Anal., Journal of Appl. Numer. Math., ETNA, Comput. & Math. with Appl., Utilitas Mathematica, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Algorithms, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, many International Conferences such as ISAAC-88, BAIL V, DISCO-90, BAIL VI, and 12th IMACS World Congress.
Distributed Numerical Computation and Visualization, Advanced Computer Communication Networks, Advanced Algorithms, Advanced Operating Systems, Parallel Numerical Methods, Computer Communication Networks, Systems Programming, Operating Systems, Systems Administration, Numerical Computing.