Biography

Steven I. Gordon, Ph.D. is an emeritus professor at The Ohio State University. He is also currently serving as the senior education lead at the Ohio Supercomputer Center where he manages the Blue Waters Fellowship Program. The program provides fellowships to Ph.D. students that integrate high performance computing into their research programs. Gordon’s past work at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) focused on efforts to integrate computational science into the curricula at institutions of higher education. Those efforts included the establishment of the Ralph Regula School of Computational Science that created several inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional undergraduate programs at eleven Ohio higher education institutions. He also served as the national education lead for the NSF sponsored XSEDE project from 2011-2016. At OSC Gordon also served as Interim Executive Director from 2009-2012. Gordon has also played a significant role in several programs in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics education for high school and middle school students. Those include a summer STEM engineering program for high school students, the creation of a high school curriculum on hydrology, and the Young Women’s Summer Institute to encourage middle school girls to continue their science and math education. As a professor of City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University, Gordon taught courses in geographic information systems, physical planning, and environmental planning. His research focused on watershed management to avoid problems of flooding and pollution. Gordon graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a bachelor’s degree in geography. He earned his master’s and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in geography with a specialization in environmental systems. Most recently, he has published an introductory textbook on modeling and simulation with Python and MATLAB. He continues to work with the computational modeling community as a representative on the Association for Computing Machinery Education Council, editor of the Journal of Computational Science Education, and officer of the ACM, SIGHPC Education chapter.