Alexander Szalay, PHD

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science; Director, Institute for Data Intensive Science

Specialization: Statistical computations on big spatial data

Contact

Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Science

3701 San Martin Drive

Baltimore, MD 21218

410-516-7217

szalay@jhu.edu

Szalay Lab

Alexander Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, the Alumni Centennial Professor of Astronomy, and Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is the Director of the Institute for Data Intensive Science. He is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He is a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received an Alexander Von Humboldt Award in Physical Sciences, in 2007 the Microsoft Jim Gray Award. In 2008 he became Doctor Honoris Causa of the Eotvos University, Budapest.

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