SRP 2023 – 2024 Staff

Name: Ajeeta KhatiwadaPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Dr. Khatiwada is a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Lab. She is an experimental high-energy physicist by education, with an expertise in the application of machine learning and uncertainty quantification in ‘big’ complex data. She got ...

Name: Allison AikenPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Allison Aiken has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She came to LANL as a postdoc in 2010 and is a former Director’s postdoctoral Fellow in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division. ...

Name: Amal GueroudjiPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Amal Gueroudji is a Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble Alpes under the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) funding at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission ...

Name: Andy NonakaPronouns: he/him/his Biography:I am a Staff Scientist and Group Lead of the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I am interested in HPC implementations of multiphysics and multiscale algorithms for PDEs using ...

Name: Anna GiannakouPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Anna Giannakou is a research scientist in the SDD working on intelligent data analytics and machine learning for networking. Anna received her PhD from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées at Inria Rennes in July 2017. Working in ...

Name: Arvind MohanPronouns: Biography:Dr. Arvind T. Mohan is a Staff Scientist in the Computational Physics and Methods group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He obtained his PhD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University with research in Computational ...

Name: Ben FeinbergPronouns: he/him Biography:Ben Feinberg is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Scalable Computer Architecture group at Sandia National Laboratories. He works on a variety of topics related to energy-efficient and reliable computing with an emphasis on memory-centric ...

Name: Bert de JongPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Bert de Jong leads the Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery Group, which advances scientific computing by developing and enhancing applications in key disciplines, as well as developing tools and libraries for addressing general problems in computational ...

Name: Carlos Fernando GamboaPronouns: Biography:Carlos Fernando Gamboa is a member of the Scientific Data and Computing Center (SDCC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he has cultivated a career in computing that spans diverse national and international scientific experiments. With a profound ...

Name: Cody O’DonnellPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Currently I am a User Experience Engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab where I help teams design and build user interfaces for scientific software applications. I am a hybrid designer/software developer, so at some times I ...

Name: Damian RousonPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Damian Rouson is a Staff Scientist and the Group Lead for the Computer Languages and Systems Software (CLaSS) Group at Berkeley Lab. He is a mechanical engineer with experience in simulating turbulent flows in multiphase, quantum, and ...

Name: Dan GunterPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Dan Gunter is the group lead of the Usable Data Systems group. Institution/Lab: Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryWebsite: SRP Collaboration Topic/Title: Scientific Software Field or research area: Computer Science Please select all the topical areas that apply to your project:Computer Science (i.e., ...

Name: Dan MartinPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Dan Martin is a computational scientist and group leader for the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research involves development of algorithms and software for solving systems of PDEs using adaptive mesh ...

Name: David I. SantiagoPronouns: Biography:Technical Lead for the Advanced Quantum Testbed Program Institution/Lab: Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryWebsite: aqt.lbl.gov SRP Collaboration Topic/Title: Experimental Quantum Computing Field or research area: Superconducting Quantum Processors Please select all the topical areas that apply to your project:Quantum Computing and Information ...

Name: David Williams-YoungPronouns: he/him Biography:I’m a researcher in the field of Theoretical / Computational Chemistry, specializing in high-performance, heterogeneous computing and relativistic theory. My research lies at the intersection of Physics, High-Performance Computing and Numerical Linear Algebra. Currently, my research interest ...

Name: Davis HerringPronouns: Biography:Davis Herring has been a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2011 after receiving his Ph.D. in Applied Science from the University of California, Davis. His work has focused on developing computational tools and libraries that ...

Name: Destinee MorrowPronouns: she/her Biography:She received her Masters of Science in Bioinformatics from Hood College (Frederick, Maryland) in 2020. Through the Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP) program, she interned under the mentorship of Dr. Xinlian Liu (Hood College) and Dr. Silvia Crivelli ...

Name: Doru PopoviciPronouns: he/him/his Biography:I am a Research Scientist in the Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery (ACSD) group. My interests are tied to computer architecture, programming languages and algorithms. I enjoy working on frameworks and methods to enable performance portable solutions ...

Name: Drew PainePronouns: he/him Biography:Drew Paine conducts user experience research of scientific software and collaboration within the Usable Data Systems (UDS) group in LBNL’s Scientific Data Division. His applied qualitative research in academia, national labs, and commercial cloud computing has shaped ...

Name: Ember SikorskiPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Bio: Ember Sikorski is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the Computational Multiscale department. She received her B.S. in Physics from University of Texas El Paso and her PhD in Materials ...

Name: Emil ConstantinescuPronouns: Biography:I graduated from Virginia Tech in 2008 and I joined Argonne right after that. I am currently a Computational Mathematician at Argonne. I work on numerical PDEs, uncertainty quantification, and machine learning. I work on weather and climate ...

Name: Erik BomanPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Erik Boman is a scientist in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Labs, where he has worked for over 20 years. He holds a PhD in Scientific Computing from Stanford University. His research interests are ...

Name: Erik PalmerPronouns: he/him/his Biography:My name is Erik Palmer and I will be the point of contact for this co-mentored project. I am a Software Integration Engineer for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at the Lawrence Berkeley National ...

Name: Erika YePronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Erika joined Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as the 2023 Alvarez fellow. She earned her PhD from Caltech in Applied Physics, where she developed computational tools for quantum simulation. After graduation, she was a postdoc at MIT, where ...

Name: George MichelogiannakisPronouns: Biography:George Michelogiannakis is a staff scientist for the computer architecture group (CAG) in the AMCR division. He has extensive work on networking (both off- and on-chip) and computer architecture. His latest work focuses on post Moore’s law era ...

Name: Hong ZhangPronouns: Biography:Hong Zhang received her B.S degree from Beijing Normal University in 1982 and Ph.D degree in computational mathematics from Michigan State University in 1989. She was a math professor at Clemson University of South Carolina and Louisiana ...

Name: Ishan SrivastavaPronouns: Biography:Ishan Srivastava is a Research Scientist in the Applied Mathematics Department within the Computing Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and affiliated with the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE). His research aims to apply theory ...

Name: Jan CieskoPronouns: he Biography:Jan Ciesko is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the scalable algorithms group. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Germany and a Ph.D. from Universitat Politècnica ...

Name: Johannes BlaschkePronouns: he/him/his Biography:Johannes Blaschke has worked in the Data Science Engagement group at NERSC since 2019, leading the NESAP for Data project, and the workflow readiness activities for the next-generation NERSC systems. NESAP for Data addresses data-intensive pipelines that ...

Name: John WuPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Dr. Wu works at the intersection between Big Data and mathematics. One theme of his work is how to find the right data for a user task. On this front, he has developed efficient indexing techniques and ...

Name: Jose M Monsalve DiazPronouns: He/him/his Biography:Jose M Monsalve Diaz is a postdoctoral appointee at Argonne National Laboratory working on exploring innovative ideas for future computer architectures. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Delaware ...

Name: Justin WozniakPronouns: Biography:Justin M Wozniak is a Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a Scientist-At-Large at the University of Chicago. He received a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2008. He currently ...

Name: Kathryn MaupinPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Kathryn Maupin is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research focuses on model form error quantification and novel surrogate modeling techniques. Broader research interests include Bayesian methods, model validation, sensitivity analysis, ...

Name: Ken RaffenettiPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Ken Raffenetti is a principal software development specialist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Argonne in ...

Name: Kevin BrownPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Kevin A. Brown is an Argonne Scholar – Walter Massey Fellow in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Kevin received his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. At Argonne, Kevin evaluates new ...

Name: Khaled IbrahimPronouns: Biography:Khaled Ibrahim is a scientist with the Computational Research Division. He joined Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Jan. 2009. He obtained his PhD in computer engineering from North Carolina State University in 2003. His research interests include performance analysis, ...

Name: Krishna NarayananPronouns: he/him/his Biography:I work at Argonne National Laboratory as a Computer Scientist. I am originally from India and moved to the US for graduate school. I mentored an undergraduate student through the SRP program in Summer 2023. The internship ...

Name: Kris BouchardPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Kristofer Bouchard is the leader of the Computational Biosciences Group. He is a neuroscientist and data scientist in the Scientific Data Division and Biological Systems & Engineering Division. Institution/Lab: Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryWebsite: https://crd.lbl.gov/divisions/scidata/computational-biosciences/ SRP Collaboration Topic/Title: Foundation model ...

Name: Lavanya RamakrishnanPronouns: she/her Biography:Lavanya Ramakrishnan is Division Deputy in the Scientific Data Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Her research focuses on developing generalized methods and tools to manage workflows and data while working closely with scientific groups and influencing ...

Name: Li TangPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Dr. Tang is a Computer Scientist in the Applied Computer Science group at Loa Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Before joining LANL, he was a Research Associate in Computational Science Initiative (CSI) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). Dr. ...

Name: Lingda LiPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Lingda Li is a computer scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is generally interested in computer architecture and programming model research, with recent focuses on performance simulation/modeling, memory system, and machine learning. Before joining BNL, he worked ...

Name: Maria ChanPronouns: Biography:Maria Chan is a scientist with the Center for Nanoscale Materials who studies nanomaterials and renewable energy materials, such as solar cells, batteries, catalysis, and thermoelectrics. Her particular focus is on using machine learning for efficient computational approaches ...

Name: Mark MillerPronouns: he/his/him Biography:Mark C. Miller has participated in the development of a number of scientific database and data modeling technologies forming the data backbone of visualization and analysis workflow tooling including Silo, ASCI-DMF, HDF5, ITAPS and more recently Conduit+Blueprint ...

Name: Mark ParisPronouns: he/him/his Biography:I am a theoretical physicist who has been at Los Alamos National Laboratory (in a group called “”T-2″”) for a little over 10 years. I work with colleagues across the laboratory to study systems that are driven ...

Name: Mark TaylorPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Mark Taylor specializes in numerical methods for parallel computing and atmospheric flows. He currently serves as Chief Computational Scientist for the DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project. He led the development of the spectral element ...

Name: Massimiliano Lupo PasiniPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Massimiliano (Max) Lupo Pasini obtained his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Mathematical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. The focus of his undergraduate and master studies was statistics and discretization ...

Name: Meifeng LinPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Dr. Meifeng Lin is a computational scientist and the group leader of the High Performance Computing group at the Computational Science Initiative of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). She holds a PhD in theoretical particle physics from Columbia ...

Name: Meng MengPronouns: Biography:I focus on improving the safety and efficiency of the energy transition. My expertise covers advanced multi-physics geomechanics testing, well integrity, cement materials, poromechanical modeling, and data analysis. With these skills, I have participated in many different projects, ...

Name: Min PriestPronouns: they/them Biography:Min’s research interests reside in the intersection of high performance computing (HPC) and data science. Their ongoing technical work includes graph embedding and clustering; streaming and sketching algorithms; and machine learning, statistical modeling, and uncertainty quantification, all ...

Name: Mitchell WoodPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Mitchell Wood is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Labs in the Center for Computing Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Purdue University, a B.S. in Physics from ...

Name: Nan DingPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Nan Ding is a Research Scientist in the Performance and Algorithms group of the Computer Science Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research interests include high-performance computing, performance modeling, and performance optimization. Nan received her Ph.D. ...

Name: Natalie IsenbergPronouns: She/her/hers Biography:Natalie is an Amalie Emmy Noether Postdoctoral Fellow in the Applied Mathematics group at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Computational Science Initiative (CSI). She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2021. Natalie’s research interests ...

Name: Nathan UrbanPronouns: Biography:I work in applied mathematics at Brookhaven National Laboratory. I have a Ph.D. in computational condensed matter physics (Penn State) and undergraduate degrees in physics, mathematics, and computer science (Virginia Tech). I have held postdoctoral appointments at Penn ...

Name: Neil GettyPronouns: Biography:Neil is a computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in the Data Science and Learning Division. His work focuses on developing AI methods for medical applications, including outcome and risk prediction from health record and medical images, as ...

Name: Oksana GubaPronouns: Biography:I am an applied mathematician with a PhD from UNM and more than 10 years of experience at Sandia National Laboratories, mostly focusing on atmosphere modeling in DOE’s climate model, E3SM, with respect to its formulation, algorithms, and ...

Name: Otto VenezuelaPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Otto Venezuela (he, him) originally hails from the beautiful Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico. Before joining LLNL four years ago, he worked at LLNL’s sister lab, Sandia National Laboratories. This summer, Venezuela created and mentored a summer ...

Name: Pablo SelesonPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Dr. Pablo Seleson is a Research Scientist in the Multiscale Methods and Dynamics Group of the Mathematics in Computation Section at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He joined ORNL as an Alston S. Householder Fellow in ...

Name: Paige KinsleyPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Paige Kinsley is the ALCF Education Outreach Lead, assisting staff in the development and leading of training and outreach activities across the division, as well as acting as the central point for all education, outreach, and training ...

Name: Patricia Gonzalez-GuerreroPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Patricia is currently a postdoctoral researcher at LBNL. She received her Ph.D. (2019) and M.Sc. (2015) from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; and her Bachelor’s Degree from the Pontifical Xavierian University (2008), Bogota, Colombia. She ...

Name: Patricia GrubelPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Pat is a staff scientist with the Future Architectures and Applications Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her current research interests include orchestration of scientific workflows for reproducibility, reliability and provenance, software engineering for sustainability and reliability, ...

Name: Paul HargrovePronouns: he/him/his Biography:Paul has been a PI at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) since September 2000. Current research focuses on network communications for HPC. His current software projects include UPC++, and Global Address Space Networking (GASNet-EX). UPC++ is a ...

Name: Paul HovlandPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Paul Hovland’s research focuses on software development tools for high-performance scientific computing. He holds a B.S. in computer engineering and an M.S. in computer science from Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science with ...

Name: Pedro Valero-LaraPronouns: he/him/his Biography:I am Pedro Valero-Lara, a computer scientist in the Programming Systems Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. My interests focused on parallel programming models and math libraries, as they are an essential component in the scientific software ...

Name: Philipp EdelmannPronouns: he/him/his Biography:My background is in computational stellar astrophysics. I have developed and worked on several codes for large scale simulations of the interiors of stars. I am one of the main developers of the SLH code, which was ...

Name: Qiulan HuangPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:I hold a Diploma in Computer Science and earned a PhD in Applied Computer Technology, specializing in Large-scale Mass Data Storage Systems, from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. Throughout my career, I have ...

Name: Rafael ZamoraPronouns: He/him/his Biography:My background is in computational research with training and experience in scientific machine learning and high-performance computing. I participated in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s VFP & SULI internship programs where I implemented scalable machine learning algorithms for ...

Name: Rajshree DeshmukhPronouns: She/Her Biography:Rajshree has been a UX designer & researcher at LBNL since 2022, and has over 8 years of experience working for complex B2B softwares. She collaborates closely with product teams, users and other stakeholders, to facilitate a ...

Name: Ravi PatelPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Ravi is a researcher in the scientific machine learning department at Sandia National Labs. He primarily works on methods of extracting surrogate models of physical systems using high fidelity simulations. He has previously developed the operator learning ...

Name: Rob JacobPronouns: he/him Biography:Robert Jacob is a Climate Scientist in the Environmental Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and a Scientist in the Argonne-University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from ...

Name: Roel Van BeeumenPronouns: he/him/his Biography:I am a Research Scientist in the Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and received my PhD in Engineering Science: Computer Science (2015) at KU Leuven from which I also ...

Name: Russell WhitesidesPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Dr. Whitesides has pursued a variety of topics in mechanical engineering R&D in the course of his academic and research career. His doctoral thesis focused on the atomistic chemical mechanisms of soot particle growth in combustion environments. ...

Name: Sabrina WanPronouns: Biography:I am a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who leads a multidisciplinary team to study interfacial phenomena, including ion transport, degradation and mechanics, in a wide variety of electrochemical systems. A key emphasize of our research ...

Name: Sam ReevePronouns: he/him Biography:Sam Reeve is staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab, working at the intersection of materials and computational science. His current focus is software development for performance portability and scalability in materials applications. Present work includes molecular ...

Name: Sandeep MadireddyPronouns: Biography:Sandeep Madireddy is an Assistant Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests span the broader areas of theoretical and applied machine learning, probabilistic modeling and high performance computing, with ...

Name: Scot SwanPronouns: He/him/his Biography:I am a computational physicist that originally worked on creating material models for simulating high-speed dynamics of solids (things crashing into each other). Now I mostly work with simulating plasmas. I have been at Sandia National Labs ...

Name: Sherry LiPronouns: Biography:Sherry Li is a Senior Scientist and group lead of the Scalable Solvers Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has worked on diverse problems in high performance scientific computations, including parallel computing, sparse matrix computations, high precision ...

Name: Silvia CrivelliPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Dr. Crivelli is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and co-Principal Investigator of an interagency collaboration between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) called MVP CHAMPION (Million Veterans Program: ...

Name: Silvio RizziPronouns: Biography:Dr. Silvio Rizzi is a Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. His research pursuits encompass a broad spectrum of domains, including High Performance Computing, Scientific Visualization, Virtual and Augmented Reality, as well as Display Technologies. Dr. Rizzi’s professional ...

Name: Slaven PelesPronouns: Biography:Dr. Slaven Peles is a computational scientist at ORNL with expertise in model-based design and computational methods for power grids, microgrids, and building energy models. Most recently he was the PI for ExaSGD – Stochastic Grid Dynamics at ...

Name: Stefan WildPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Wild is a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Lab and adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University. Wild’s primary research focuses on developing model-based algorithms and software for challenging numerical optimization problems and automated learning. He has worked across ...

Name: Steven HofmeyrPronouns: Biography:Steven Hofmeyr is a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Previously he was founder and Chief Scientist at cyber-security company Sana Security, which was acquired by AVG in 2009. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from ...

Name: Talita PercianoPronouns: she/her/hers Biography:Talita Perciano is a Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a member of both the Machine Learning and Analytics group and the Computational Biosciences group. She conducts research in the areas of machine learning, ...

Name: Tanwi MallickPronouns: Biography:Tanwi is an Assistant Computer Science Specialist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne. She was previously a Postdoctoral appointee in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. Currently, her research focuses on the development of scalable ...

Name: Terry JonesPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Terry Jones is a Sr. Research Staff Member (Computer Scientist) within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division (CSMD) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A professional researcher with over 25 years of experience at national laboratories, Terry received ...

Name: Thomas SmithPronouns: Biography:Thomas M. Smith received a B.S. in aerospace engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on numerical methods for solving PDEs ...

Name: Tim WatersPronouns: Biography:Dr. Waters is an early career staff member in the computational physics division. He holds a PhD in physics and a MS in applied mathematics. Recognized for his contributions to the physics of active galactic nuclei, at LANL ...

Name: Warren DavisPronouns: he/him Biography:Dr. Warren L. Davis IV is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Scientific Machine Learning department in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories. He was the PI for the Hybrid Methods for ...

Name: William GodoyPronouns: Biography:William F. Godoy is a senior computer scientist in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His interests are in high-performance computing programming models, scientific software, data management and performance portability. Godoy received a ...

Name: Xingfu WuPronouns: he/him/his Biography:Dr. Wu joined Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Lab as a staff scientist in July 2017 and has a joint appointment at the University of Chicago as CASE Senior Scientist. He worked as the ...