Murtaza Ali, Texas Instruments
Murtaza Ali is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at Texas Instruments. He currently leads the High Performance Signal processing Applications R&D activity focusing on DSP applications in the Systems and Applications R&D Center. Murtaza is currently involved in researching advanced computational techniques for implementation in TI solutions as well as for defining TI’s roadmap in this space. His current activities include linear algebra, seismic imaging, amd medical imaging.
Dr. Ali received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1989. He obtained his Master’s and Ph.D. from University of Minnesota all in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and 1995 respectively. In the past, he led R&D teams for mobile WiMAX, ADSL and voice-band modem technologies in TI and has represented TI in various national and international standards organizations including TIA, ITU, HomePlug, HPNA, and IEEE. Dr. Ali holds 15 U.S. patents and has published over 30 papers in refereed and invited forums. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Mauricio Araya-Polo, Repsol
Mauricio Araya Polo received his BA (1998) and Engineer degree (2001) from the University of Chile. Afterwards, he obtained a scholarship from the Chilean government that support him towards his MS (2003) and PhD (2006) in Computer Science from the University of Nice – Sophia-Antipolis, working for the TROPICS team of the INRIA of Sophia-Antipolis (France), where the main research theme is Automatic Differentiation. From 2007 to 2010, Mauricio worked at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for the Kaleidoscope project, mainly focused on code optimization and porting of the geophysical algorithms. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher for the geophysics department of Repsol USA, where his main interests are algorithms, HPC and computer architectures for geophysical applications.
David Baldwin, Petroleum Geo-Services
David Baldwin is the Support Manager for Petroleum Geo-Services and with his team of engineers delivers HPC services to their seismic processing division in North and South America. David started his career as a Royal Air Force electronics engineer before joining the seismic industry as a geophysicist onboard a WesternGeco vessel. He came to PGS in 1997 and completed a stint offshore before returning to his roots in the technology world joining PGS’ HPC group. He holds degrees in Oceanography & Engineering.
Farhad Banisadr, LANL
Registered professional mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience in Energy Conservation and Optimization of Central Chilled Water Plants, Cooling High-Density Data Centers, Building Automation Systems, Smart Buildings, Air Distribution Systems, Test & Balance, and Commissioning of major projects.
Ted Barragy, AMD
Ted graduated from the Univ of Texas at Austin in 1993 with a PhD in Engineering Mechanics and a focus on finite element methods for CFD and parallel algorithms. He worked at Intel for 12 years, starting as the on site Computation Scientist at Sandia National Lab for 1866 node Paragon system and later the ASCI Red TFLOP system. Later work at Intel included performance tuning for commercial workloads and x86 micro-architectural analysis. He returned to HPC work and helped develop and bring half size (Twin) server boards to the commodity HPC market. Ted also worked at Object Reservoir, developing an iterative solver package for their reservoir simulation code. Ted is currently employed by AMD, working on performance tuning for CPU & GPU compute.
Bret Beckner, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Bret Beckner is a Senior Consultant at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. He has over 25 years of experience in reservoir simulation with assignments in simulation applications, research and simulator development management. He has over 25 publications and several patents in the area of reservoir simulation and has served as the Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Simulation Symposium and as a Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer. He has a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas with M.S. and Ph. D. Degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University.
Kent Blancett, BP
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Leonardo Borges, Intel Corp
Leo Borges is a member of the Software & Services Group at Intel since 2005. He is based in Houston, TX, and works on performance analysis and system/software optimization with primary focus in the Oil & Gas vertical. Leo has specialized in HPC for the past 12 years. His background is in numerical analysis and high performance computing previously working as a developer of parallel numerical math libraries.
Jim Breef, Hess CorporationJim Breef is a member of the Upstream Technical Computing department at Hess Corporation’s E&P headquarters in Houston. He joined Hess in 1994 and currently is Manager of Technical User Support. With his team he has responsibility for both the hardware and application software for the technical desktop. Additionally, his team is responsible for the support of all of the technical collaboration technologies and large format plotting.
Mr. Breef received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972 and has been working in support of the oil and gas and engineering industries for more than 35 years.
Barbara Chapman, University of Houston
Barbara Chapman is a professor of computer science at the University of Houston. She earned a B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in mathematics from Canterbury University, New Zealand, and a Ph.D. in computer science at Queen’s University, Belfast. She has conducted research on parallel programming languages, compiler technology, and tool support for parallel application development for more than 15 years, and has written two books, published numerous papers, and edited volumes on related topics. Her research group has developed OpenUH, an open source reference compiler for OpenMP with Fortran, C and C++, that also supports Coarray Fortran and CUDA. In 2001, she founded cOMPunity, a not-for-profit organization that enables research participation in the development and maintenance of the OpenMP industry standard for shared memory parallel programming. She is a member of the Multicore Association, where she collaborates with industry to define low-level programming interfaces for heterogeneous computers. Her group also works with colleagues in the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Energy to help define and promote the OpenSHMEM programming interface that is based on single-sided communications.
Raul de la Cruz, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Raúl de la Cruz received his MS degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, in 2002. Currently he is a Researcher in the Computer Applications in Science & Engineering department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He is also a PhD student in the Department of Computer Architecture at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. His research interests are in numerical optimization techniques (finite difference, finite element and linear algebra) and high-performance computing.
Jeff Davis, Hess Corporation
Jeff Davis is Manager of Technical Computing for the Hess Corporation’sE&P Division. He has been with the Hess Corporation since 1991supporting various areas of Hess’s E&P computing efforts. He hassupported various HPC hardware configurations including IBM’s SP series,SGI’s Power Challenge, multiple generations of Linux clusters, and mostrecently a large NVIDIA GPU cluster. In addition, he manages a team ofSysadmins which globally administer Technical Computing systems for HessE&P. Jeff graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree inMathematics in 1991.
Saad Dimachkieh, HOK Architects
Saad Dimachkieh is the Director of Electrical Engineering and Assistant Director of MEP Engineering for HOK in Houston, Texas. Saad received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1978 and 1980 respectively. Since 1980 he has been with HOK and has served in various engineering positions. Saad has lead the electrical engineering design on some of HOK’s major projects and was the lead electrical engineer and the MEP Team Leader on King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) which was LEED Platinum. Saad’s experience is mainly in owner occupied, highly technical, energy efficient and mission critical facilities. He is a registered professional engineer in 17 states and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). Saad is also a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Lighting Energy Professional (CLEP).
Vadim Dyadechko, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Vadim Dyadechko is Senior Engineering Specialist at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. He has over 10 years of experience in numerical linear algebra, computational geometry, and numerical PDEs with applications in multi-phase fluid flows. He has a M.S. in Applied Math and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ph. D. in Applied Math from the University of Houston, and conducted his postdoctoral research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Deepak Eachempati, University of Houston
Deepak Eachempati is a doctoral candidate in the Computer Science departmentat the University of Houston. He works in the HPCTools research group, led byBarbara Chapman, wherein he is one of the lead developers of the OpenUHcompiler. He also serves as a participant in the steering group for the Open64compiler project. His primary research interest is compiler optimizationstrategies for HPC parallel programming models, with particular focus onCoarray Fortran and OpenMP. Deepak received his M.Sc. in computer science atUniversity of Houston in 2009. His past projects include development of acompiler and runtime implementation for OpenMP on distributed memory systems,and an implementation of a parallel data flow analysis framework within theOpenUH global optimizer.
Yaakoub El-Khamra, The University of Texas at Austin
Yaakoub is a Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III (RESA III) with TACC. His duties include researching advanced parallel computing algorithms and processes, and providing solutions to real-world problems using off-the-shelf and custom tools to profile and optimize programs. Yaakoub will also be participating in HPC training courses, evaluation of new hardware, and documentation on the use of TACC visualization resources.
Erik Engquist, Rice University
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Vic Forsyth, Hess Corporation, Twin Falls Consulting, LLC
After graduating from the University of Tulsa in 1971 with degrees in Geophysics and Computer Science, Vic worked for both Seismograph Service Corporation and Amoco Production prior to settling at in at Hess Corporation. He worked at Hess for 26 years, were he became Director, Geophysical Systems. During his career he was involved in design and development of five geophysical processing systems that spanned computer technology ranging from early IBM mainframes, thru mini-computers and finally to cluster based Linux systems. He retired from Hess in August 2011 and now works part time as managing member of Twin Falls Consulting, LLC where he continues to evolve geophysical system designs.
Frank Hersom, HOK Architects
Frank Hersom, Sr. Project Manager, Vice President, LEED AP BD+C, 43 years in the design side of construction with the first 20 years in engineering before transferring to the architecture group in project management. Between his projects in the engineering group and later in the architecture group most of Frank’s experience has been highly technical projects including labs, numerous master plans, hospitals, R&D, R&D for manufacturing companies, data centers, control rooms and energy control and data centers as well as office and educational facilities. Some of the more notable projects include: Lunar Sample Curatorial Facility, NASA JSC , King Abdulla Aziz Military Academy, Saudi Arabia, Numerous Projects for Cummins Engine Company, Energy Control and Data Center, NASA Building 20 Office Building JSC, LEED Platinum.
Maxime Hugues, INRIA, France
Dr. Maxime Hugues graduated from the French National Engineer School “ISEN-Toulon” in 2007. The same year, he received a M.S. degree from the University of Science and Technologies of Lille. He made a Ph.D., fellowship from the Oil & Gas company TOTAL, and received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2011 at the University of Lille 1. During his Ph.D., he worked as a junior researcher in high performance computing at TOTAL. His researches are mainly focused on programming paradigms for post-Petascale and Exascale supercomputers. He is currently working as post doctoral researcher at INRIA.
Gary Kuzma, HOK Architects
Gary Kuzma is Director of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing engineering for HOK in Houston, Texas and has been with the firm for 30+ years. Gary is a design professional with 33 years of experience and has lead the mechanical engineering on significant projects around the world for public and corporate clients including the highly acclaimed, LEED Platinum, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Gary’s specialized experience is with science and technology project types that include mission critical facilities. He is a registered professional engineer in 25 states and a member of ASHRAE, Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) and The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI). Gary is a LEED Accredited Professional (AP) and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) who has a passion to deliver sustainable and ultra-energy efficient integrated design.
Kelly Gaither, The University of Texas at Austin
Kelly Gaither is the Director of Visualization for the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin. She has been with the center since 2001. Prior to joining TACC, Kelly worked as a research professor in computational engineering at Mississippi State University. Her current projects include work in feature detection techniques, real-time rendering of complex, time-dependent data sets, and remote and collaborative visualization. She earned her Ph.D. in Computational Engineering from Mississippi State University, and her master¹s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
Andreas Kloeckner, New York University
Andreas Klöckner obtained his PhD degree working with Jan Hesthaven atthe Department of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. There, heworked on a variety of topics all aiming to broaden the utility ofhigh-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods. Insupport of his research, Dr. Klöckner has publicly released numerousscientific software packages. Among his most widely-used packages arethe PyCUDA and PyOpenCL toolkits. These packages ease the use ofheterogeneous compute devices, including GPUs. In the fall of 2010,Klöckner has joined the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences atNew York University as a Courant Instructor. There, he is working onproblems in high-order integral equation methods for electromagneticscattering with Leslie Greengard, in addition to teaching graduate-levelhigh-performance computing.
Lars Koesterke, The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Koesterke joined TACC in 2007 as a Research Associate in the High Performance Computing (HPC) group. Before coming to TACC, he held positions at the Astronomy Department at The University of Texas at Austin, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Universities of Potsdam and Kiel (both Germany). His work at TACC is focused on performance evaluation and optimization.
Xiaohui Li, Texas Instruments
Dr. Xiaohui Li is an application engineer at TI’s Multicore and Multimedia Infracture Group responsible for promoting TI’s multicore DSP for applications in High Performance Computing and Medical Imaging. Xiaohui has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
Terrence Liao, Total
Terrence Liao is a Sr. Advisor in HPC at TOTAL E&P Research & Technology USA,one of TOTAL E&P’s regional research centers, located at Houston, TX. Terrencecurrently manages the TOTAL E&P’s HPC research activities at U.S. and alsoprovides parallel programming code development support to the seismic depthimaging research group. Prior to join TOTAL in 2007, he was working inscientific software development in the areas of drilling application,reservoir simulation, basin modeling and CFD. Terrence has a Ph.D. fromUniversity of Minnesota and has been working on HPC related topics since hisPost Doc days at University of New Mexico in 1995, which also included anExcel interface for Windows 2000 cluster for CDO simulation when he workedbriefly at Wall Street. Terrence is interested in solving tough HPC problems.
Serguei Maliassov, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Serguei Maliassov is an Associate Research Mathematician at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. He has over 18 years of experience in mathematical modeling of fluid flow in porous media with assignments in basin modeling and reservoir simulation. He has over 40 publications in the area of applied mathematics and several patents in the area of reservoir simulation. He has a Ph. D. Degree in Numerical Analysis from Texas A&M University.
Debjyoti Majumder, University of Houston
Debjyoti Majumder received his M.Sc. in computer science at University ofHouston in Fall 2011, graduating from HPCTools research group led by BarbaraChapman. He was the main developer of the Coarray Fortran runtime librarythat comes with the OpenUH compiler. His primary research interest isruntime support for PGAS programming models.
John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University
Mellor-Crummey’s research focuses on software technology for high performance parallel computing. His ongoing research includes work on tools for measurement and analysis of application performance, compiler and run-time technology for parallel and scientific computing, application performance modeling, and compiler technology for domain-specific languages. Past work has included developing techniques for execution replay of parallel programs, efficient software synchronization algorithms for shared-memory multiprocessors, and a system for efficiently detecting data races in executions of shared-memory programs using a combination of compile-time and run-time support.
In 2006, John Mellor-Crummey and Michael L. Scott were awarded the Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their paper Algorithms for Scalable Synchronization on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, February, 1991.
Mike Moretti, DDN
Mike Moretti is an engineer at DataDirect Networks. He is working at team leader His main work is focused on the virtualized version of the SFA storage which gives an open part to end-user.
Serge Petiton, LIFL, France
Prof. Serge G. Petiton received a Ph.D. degree, 1988, and an Habilitation, 1993, from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris 6. He was postdoc and associated researcher scientist at Yale University, 1989/1990. He has been researcher fellow at the Site Experimental en Hyperparallelisme from 1991 to 1994. Since then, Serge G. Petiton is Professor at the Scientific and Technical University of Lille. Serge Petiton leads the Methodology and Algorithmic Programming group of the CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, and he also actively participates to the INRIA Grand Large project. He is director of the board of the ORAP association which promotes HPC. He participated to several French and European HPC committees. He has advised more than 15 Ph.D. and has authored more than 70 articles on journals and conferences. His main current research interests are in parallel and distributed computing, high performance linear algebra, and grid computing.
Richard Rivera, LANL
Electrical engineer with over 25 years experience in process control systems, building automation systems, low power distribution, Computer site prep design and Data Center power/cooling monitoring systems.
Eric Stotzer, Texas Instruments
Dr. Eric Stotzer is a senior member of TI’s Software Development Organization’s compiler team. He has been with TI for 23 years working on software development tools, compilers, architectures and parallel programming models. Eric has a PhD in computer science from the University of Houston.
William Symes, Rice University
William W. Symes earned degrees in mathematics from UC Berkeley (BA, 1971) and Harvard (PhD, 1975). He has held teaching and/or research positions at University of British Columbia, University of Wisconsin, and Michigan State University. Since 1983, he has been a member of the faculty at Rice University, where he currently holds the Noah Harding Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics, and is also Professor of Earth Science. He is co-director of the Center for Computational Geophysics at Rice, and founding director of The Rice Inversion Project, a university-industry research consortium in seismic imaging and inversion.
Philippe Thierry, Intel Corp
Philippe Thierry is currently leading the Intel Energy Engineering team supporting ISV and end users in the energy sector. His short-term activity includes profiling and tuning of HPC applications for current and future platforms as well as advice for super-computer definition with respect to the applications behaviors. His long term research activity is devoted to performance extrapolation and application characterization and modeling toward Exascale computing. Philippe obtained a Ph.D. in Geophysics on seismic imaging from Paris School of Mines, France, in 1996, France. In 1997 he got a permanent position as a researcher at Paris School of Mines where he continued his research on 3D prestack depth migration, AVO/AVA inversion and High Performance Computing, working in collaboration with several Oil companies. He was the co-leader of the Depth Imaging Group consortium (DIG). In 2004, Philippe joined SGI France for 2 years before joining Intel Corp in Paris area.
Jamel Tayeb, Intel Corp
Jamel Tayeb is a software engineer in Intel’s Software and Services Group. He has held a variety of engineering, marketing and PR roles over his 10 years at Intel. Jamel has been worked with enterprise and telecommunications hardware and software companies in optimizing and porting applications for/to Intel platforms, including Itanium and Xeon processors. Most recently, Jamel has been involved with several energy-efficiency projects at Intel. Prior to reaching Intel, Jamel was a professional journalist. Jamel earned a PhD in Computer Science from Université de Valenciennes, a Post-graduate diploma in Artificial Intelligence from Université Paris 8, and a Professional Journalist Diploma from CFPJ (Centre de formation et de perfectionnement des journalistes – Paris Ecole du Louvre).
Dave Twinam, Arista Networks
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Tim Warburton, Rice University
Dr. Warburton received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from BrownUniversity and is currently an Associate Professor of Computational andApplied Mathematics at Rice University. He is an expert on high-order,finite element methods for time-domain electromagnetics and fluiddynamics. He co-authored the first academic text specifically dedicatedto discontinuous Galerkin methods. He has extensive experience usinggraphics processing units to accelerate discontinuous Galerkin basedsimulations.
Peter J. Ungaro, Cray Inc.
Peter Ungaro serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cray Inc., a leader in the supercomputing marketplace. Prior to his appointment as President and CEO in 2005, Ungaro was the Senior Vice President responsible for sales, marketing and service. Ungaro was recently named CEO of the Year for 2006 by Seattle Business Monthly magazine for his leadership in turning around the company and one of the “40 under 40” by Corporate Leader Magazine in 2008. He has also been appointed to the Department of Commerce’s Manufacturing Council. The Council advises the Secretary of Commerce on matters relating to the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector and government policies and programs that affect U. S. manufacturers.
Before joining Cray in 2003, Ungaro served as Vice President of Sales for Worldwide Deep Computing, at IBM. In that role, he led global sales of all IBM server and storage products for high performance computing, life sciences, digital media and business intelligence markets. He held a variety of other sales leadership positions since joining IBM in 1991. Ungaro received a B. A. in business administration from Washington State University.
Gary Whittle, Hess Corporation
After graduating from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1979 witha degree in Physics with Computing, Gary joined Seismograph Service,where he gained experience in surface and downhole seismic dataacquisition and processing techniques. He transitioned to thegeophysical programming group in 1982, and later worked in a similarcapacity for Western Geophysical, Sierra Geophysics and AGS, beforefinding his home with Amerada Hess Corporation in 1993. He obtained anM.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2001. After18 years with Hess he now manages the Global Geoscience Systemsdepartment, responsible for technical computing systems (inc. HPC), G&Gapplication administration/support and geoscience systems softwaredevelopment, the latter in direct support of seismic processing/imaging.
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Henri Calandra, Total, France
Henri Calandra obtained his M.Sc. in mathematics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1987 from the Universite des Pays de l’Adour in Pau, France. He joined Cray Research France in 1987 and worked on seismic applications. In 1989 he joined the applied mathematics department of the French Atomic Agency. In 1990 he started working for Total SA. After 12 years of work in high performance computing and as project leader for Pre-stack Depth Migration Research, he became head of Total USA’s Geophysics Research Group for 3 years in 2002 and coordinated Depth Imaging Research for the worldwide group until mid 2007 He is now technical advisor in depth imaging and high performance computing.
Keith Gray, BP
Keith Gray is Manager of High Performance Computing for BP. The HPC Team supports the computing requirements for BP’s Advanced Seismic Imaging Research efforts. This team supports one of the largest Linux Clusters dedicated to research in Oil and Gas. Mr. Gray graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in geophysics, and has worked for BP and Amoco since 1985. He was listed in HPCWire’s People to Watch 2006.
David Judson, Western Geco
David Judson has been developing software for the Geophysical industry for over 30 years since joining DIgicon Geophysical in 1974 He was one of the founders of CogniSeis Development which became part of Paradigm In 2000 he joined WesternGeco where he is currently responsible for evaluating hardware and software technology for use in high performance computing.
Bill Menger,
Society of HPC Professionals
Bill Menger is the Houston HPC Manager at Weinman Geoscience, a subsidiary of Global Geophysical. Bill started his career as a nuclear engineer for the US Navy prior to joining Conoco in 1982 to work on magnetotellurics and electrical methods. Bill has also worked on multicomponent seismic, data management, and seismic processing systems for Conoco and ConocoPhillips. He left Conoco for three years to join AGS, working on Kirchhoff and demultiple techniques. He returned to Conoco to help implement Kirchhoff migration on their first 4-node cluster in 1999. Bill managed software and High Performance Computing for ConocoPhillips until 2009. In addition to his current job, Bill maintains the CPSeis open-source seismic processing system and is on the board of the Society of HPC Professionals.
Scott Morton, Hess Corporation
Scott Morton has 25 years of experience in computational and theoretical physics distributed between academia, the computer industry and the petroleum industry. Although originally trained as an astrophysicist, he switched to geophysics when he joined Shell in 1991 to do research and development in seismic imaging. Scott spent the next 7 years distributed between Shell, Thinking Machines, Cray Research and SGI, gaining expertise in both geophysics and computational science as well as earning an R&D 100 award.
In 1998 Scott settled down at Hess Corporation and helped build one of the first Linux PC clusters used for seismic imaging. He has recently spearheaded the petroleum industry’s effort at doing seismic imaging on GPU (graphics processing unit) clusters. Scott currently manages the Geophysical Technology Development group in Hess Corporation’s Global E&P Technology department and is responsible for monitoring, adopting, developing and testing new geophysical and computational technologies.
Jan E. Odegard, Rice University
Jan E. Odegard joined the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (formerly Computer and Information Technology Institute) at Rice University as Executive Director in 2002. In this role he led the development and deployment of large scale competing resources in support of research. Today, the computational resources deployed at Rice supports the research of over 100 faculty members and close to 500 users. The majority of users are engaged in research in science and engineering. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice (1996) in the area of digital signal processing and served as executive director for the Computational Mathematics Laboratory (1996-1997), and Center for Multimedia Communication at Rice (1998-1999). In 1999, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Stavanger in Norway as Associate Professor and served as department chair (2000-2001).
Chap Wong, Chevron
Chap Wong is a Chevron Fellow, he is recognized as Chevron’s thought leader in high-performance computing. He is currently a member of the Strategy, Architecture and Emerging Technology Team in Chevron Energy Technology Company’s Technical Computing Department. Chap is engaged in market evaluation, proof of concept and deployment of the emerging technologies required to maximize the performance of Chevron’s HPC environment.
He has over thirty years experience with Chevron in upstream technical computing. Chap has involved in architecting the large Chevron upstream cluster since 2001. Chap graduated from National Taiwan U. with a degree in E.E. and a master degree in Computing Science from TAMU.