 Stan Ahalt
Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D., oversees high performance computing, networking, and research operations as executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC).
Since taking the leadership of OSC in 2003, Ahalt has launched several model programs, including Blue Collar Computing, a national program to bring high performance computing to a wide spectrum of industries and applications, and OSCnet, the nation’s leading high-speed research network for K-12, higher education and economic development.
His research expertise involves neural networks, high performance computing, signal/image/video processing and object identification. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 technical papers. Ahalt also serves as the academic lead in the area of signal and image processing for the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program. This initiative provides essential support for the wide variety of research and development demands that arise from the science/technology and test/evaluation programs supporting DoD's weapons development and warfighting support systems.
Ahalt collaborates with a variety of organizations in his active research programs, including the Army Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Additionally, Ahalt has been a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at The Ohio State University since 1987, and co-founded the Information Processing Systems Laboratory there. He received the OSU Lumley Research Award in 1997 and the OSU College of Engineering Research Award in 1999.
Prior to joining OSU, Ahalt worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories where he developed industrial data products.
He received his bachelor’s and master’s from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in electrical engineering in 1978 and 1980, and a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Clemson University in 1986.
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