Dr. Austin received a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001. For his thesis, he extended a least-squares method for the neutron transport equation to be applicable to anisotropic scattering problems and developed a robust multigrid solution method for the resulting discrete system of equations. He spent two years as a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on the development of multigrid solvers for massively parallel computing systems and most recently two and a half years at the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute where he worked on bio-electrical modeling of the heart and the guts. His expertise is in the development and usage of multigrid methods.