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Roscoe Giles is the deputy director of Boston University's Center for Computational Science. He is also the Professor of computer and electrical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering.

Education
He earned his Bachelors Degree in Physics at the University of Chicago at 1970. In 1975 he received his doctorate from Stanford University becoming the first African American to earn his Ph. D. in theoretical physics from that school.

Research
Roscoe Giles uses high performance parallel computers to solve problems in physics and material science and the development of algorithms for large scale micro magnetic modeling and molecular dynamics simulation.

Philanthropy
Roscoe Giles is the founder and executive director for the Institution of African American E-Culture. This foundation was developed to deal with the problem of "digital divide" which is a term used to describe the lack of access to information technology by minority groups and other poor communities in the US. Giles is also a team leader in the National Science Foundation's Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure group. Through this foundation, students and teachers learn to use advanced computing systems for understanding, modeling and solving problems.