Stefan Muszala received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007. His work, in close collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado, Denver involved improving the performance of parallel and distributed Climate Models, Molecular Dynamics codes and Ocean Models through the use of new load balancing methods. Prior to his work at CU Boulder and NCAR, Stefan worked for Fugro Airborne Surveys and Fugro McClelland Marine Geosciences as a data processor and analyst. His work for Fugro was preceded by a study of physics, geology and geophysics at the University of Texas, Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Rutgers College.

At Tech-X corporation, some of Stefan's current projects include Common Component Architecture implementation and large-scale scientific visualization. Other interests include computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, high performance computing and load balancing techniques.