Philip Mucci is a computer scientist and consultant in addition to being a newly minted PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. He is currently working as a consultant for SiCortex in addition to his permanent positions as a Research Scientist for the Center for Parallel Computers (PDC) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and as a Research Consultant for the Innovative Computing Laboratory led by Dr. Jack Dongarra at the University of Tennessee . His research is focused on the performance and optimization of high-end technical compute platforms. Philip earned his B.A. in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University in 1993 and he earned his M.S. in Computer Science from University of Tennessee in 1998.