To: Whom it May Concern:

I'm writing to you regarding my talented PhD. student, Saleh Elmohamed, who
I understand will be interviewing with you for a position in your company.
Saleh has been working with me here, at the Northeast Parallel Architectures
Center, on a number of research and development projects. His areas of focus
are in high performance and distributed computing (performance of
multiprocessors and interaction of applications and architecture), Java and
Web technologies for computational science and engineering, distance
learning, and scheduling.

He has developed a new set of annealing-based heuristics to carry out
scheduling and timetabling in a more efficient and least costly fashion.
Also, he developed and extensively worked on software for distributed
computing. He has been involved in teaching computational science and
engineering for the last three years. He has put together various web-based
teaching resources, and designed many parallel/distributed examples in
C/MPI, High Performance Fortran, and Java to be used as teaching aids for my
courses.

Saleh is extremely knowledgeable and an exceptional resource when it comes
to gathering references on a new subject. He has substantial experience on
issues involved in parallel computing, particularly programming models
including the shared-memory and message passing paradigms. He also has been
working on the use of high performance Java for application problems in
computational science and engineering. His dissertation is on
annealing-based algorithms for optimization, particularly, for the hard
problems of scheduling and timetabling. I believe that his thesis makes
major progress in this area studying an interesting realistic problem --
namely scheduling large University classes where he finds that a hybrid
method combining rule based and physical optimization performs very well.
His paper on this subject was very well received.

As his academic advisor I also would like to say that Saleh is a good team
member and that his work combines talent and hard work. I recommend him very
highly and believe he would be very valuable member of your organization.
Please, feel free, if necessary, to contact me about Saleh's academic
background and his research and development work with NPAC.

Sincerely yours,