Intro to HPC: Speakers, Organizers, and Other Leaders

Amanda Sabatini Dufek is a member of the Application Performance Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) since January 2021. She was Assistant Professor of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at ...

Dr. Andy Nonaka is a Staff Scientist and Group Lead of the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific and his PhD ...

Dr. Anjuli Jain Figueroa is Chief of the Office of Energy Justice Analysis Division within the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity. She works on the implementation of the Justice40 initiative across the Department of Energy (DOE) which sets a ...

David Trebotich is a staff scientist in the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research involves end-to-end development of high resolution algorithms for complex flows in multiscale, multiphysics systems using adaptive, finite volume methods. In particular ...

Where did you grow up?Born in the Philippines but grew up in the Bay Area since I was 8 years old. What’s your field of study and how did you get into that field?My degrees are in Computing Sciences and an ...

Jean Luca is a career-track Data Management Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is passionate about High-Performance I/O, Parallel I/O, Education, and Competitive Programming. He received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Universidade Regional ...

Jonathan Carter, Ph.D.Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Jonathan Carter is the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The Computing Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab encompasses the National Energy Research ...

Where did you grow up?I grew up in Hoboken, N.J. What’s your field of study and how did you get into that field?My PhD is in Organic Chemistry, I studied at the University of New Hampshire. I was always interested in ...

Keisha has over 20 years of experience working with underrepresented students, starting with a local Boys & Girls Club where, as Outreach Director, she worked with middle school administrators to launch tutoring after school. As the VP of Finance, she ...

Where did you grow up?I grew up in Annville, Pennsylvania – a small town in central PA, near Hershey (chocolate). What’s your field of study and how did you get into that field?My work focuses on high-performance scientific computing, where I ...

Where did you grow up?I was born and raised in the bay area of northern California. What’s your field of study and how did you get into that field?All my degrees (bachelors, masters, and PhD) are in chemistry. I specialized in ...

Michael Witherell has served as Lab Director since 2016. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab delivers scientific breakthroughs over a remarkable range of basic and applied science, with special focus on research in clean energy, Earth and ecological systems, and discovery ...

Where did you grow up?I grew up in Littleton, CO What’s your field of study and how did you get into that field?I got my Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where I studied the interactions ...

Richard A. Gerber , Ph.D.HPC Department Head and NERSC Senior Science Advisor Richard Gerber is NERSC’s Senior Science Advisor and Head of the HPC Department. Richard has been involved with leading-edge High Performance Computing systems for 30 years, using early Cray ...

Where did you grow up?I grew up in Bangalore, India (aka Bengaluru) What’s your field of study and how did you get into that field?I have a bachelors and masters in computer science and engineering and an MBA. My first introduction ...