Eng Lim Goh, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Eng Lim Goh has been with SGI for 18 years, becoming one of
the chief scientists in 1998 and chief technology officer in 2001. His tenure
includes work in computer graphics algorithms and high-performance computing
(HPC) architectures.
He is a proponent of next-generation computer systems designed specifically for customer applications performance. To this, he advocates computational density and energy efficiency when integrating commodity components; and where appropriate, a balanced multi-paradigm approach, across a globally addressable memory, to architectural design.
In computer graphics, Dr. Goh's current
research interest is in the relationships between human visual perception and
visual computing. He has been awarded three U.S. patents in this field. He is also
leading a small research effort to investigate application-transparent,
massively parallel rendering.
In 2005, the IDG publication, InfoWorld, named Dr. Goh one of
World's 25 most influential CTOs. That same year, he was also included in the
HPCwire list of "15 People to Watch." In 2007, Dr. Goh was named in
"Champions 2.0" for the bio-IT industry by BioIT World magazine, and
received the HPC Community Recognition Award from HPCwire.
Before joining SGI, Dr. Goh worked for
Intergraph Systems, Schlumberger Wireline Netherlands, and Shell Research U.K. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar,
he completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and
computer graphics. He also holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical
engineering from Birmingham University, U.K.
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