Dr. Sean Chester is an assistant professor in Computer science at the University of Victoria in Canada. He specialises in data management on modern, highly parallel architectures, such as graphics processing cards (GPUs) and multi-socket (i.e., NUMA) CPUs. His research typically appears in top database periodicals: PVLDB, ACM SIGMOD, and IEEE ICDE.

From 2017-2019, he held a prestigious Horizon 2020 Marie-Skłodowska Curie fellowship from the European Research Council, which he tenured at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Previously, he had been a postdoc at Aarhus University (Denmark) and a graduate student at the University of Victoria (Canada).

Currently, his team is focusing on data-parallel, lock-free algorithms with applications in graph analytics, computer graphics, and natural language processing. We focus on combined theoretical-empirical validation with proofs of correctness and software prototypes to evaluate observed performance.