Leading academic wins Microsoft Valued Professional Award 2010
Professor Simon Cox has won the 2010 MVP Award, this is the seventh consecutive year that he has won the award. The award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. The award recognises and rewards Professor Cox’s exceptional contributions in Windows HPC Server technical communities during the past year.
Professor Cox is a Director of the Microsoft High Performance Centre and sits on Microsoft's Technical Computing Executive Advisory Council, which consists of CIOs of Fortune 20 companies and representatives from world-leading Govt Labs. He has a doctorate in Electronics and Computer Science, degrees in Maths and Physics and has just been appointed as Associate Dean for Enterprise in the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment within the University of Southampton.
The University of Southampton enjoys strong industrial collaborations with organisations such as Microsoft. The Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing was created in November 2005. This Institute is the only one of its kind in the UK (the only other European Institute is in Stuttgart) and one of a total of nine institutes worldwide.
Professor Cox explains ‘Industrial collaborations are key in demonstrating the relevance of the research that we do. I am delighted to receive this award which recognises the work that I and my excellent team have done showing how Microsoft's technologies enable complex computational engineering processes to scale across Clients, Clusters and Clouds.'