Kirk W. Cameron received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Louisiana State University (2000) and B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Florida (1994). The central theme of his research is to improve performance and power efficiency in high performance computing (HPC) systems and applications.
Since 2005, he has been an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech and was named a Faculty Research Fellow for the VT College of Engineering in 2007. Other accolades for his research include NSF and DOE Career Awards and an IBM Faculty Award. Prof. Cameron is a pioneer and leading expert in Green Computing. His advanced power measurement software infrastructure (PowerPack) is used by dozens of research groups around the world. His power management software, Granola, is used by hundreds of thousands of people in more than 160 countries. Cameron is also a Green IT columnist for IEEE Computer, Green500 co-founder, founding member of SPECPower, EPA consultant, Uptime Institute Fellow, and co-founder of software power management startup company MiserWare.