Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, US National Science Foundation
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R&D Lead, Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Frank Cappello is an R&D lead and Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He leads a research team exploring resilience for HPC and large-scale distributed systems, lossy compression of scientific data and LLMs for science. He is an IEEE Fellow, the recipient of the 2024 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award, the 2024 Europar Achievement Award, the 2022 HPDC Achievement Award, two R&D100 awards (2019 and 2021), the 2018 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service Award, and the 2021 IEEE Transactions of Computer Award for Editorial Service and Excellence.
Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
Karthik Duraisamy is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M) where he also directs the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE). He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland. His research interests span a broad spectrum of computational science and AI, including data-driven and reduced order modeling, statistical inference, numerical methods, and Generative AI for science. Karthik is the PI of the U-M/Los Alamos Center on Advanced Computational Sciences. He is also the founder and chief scientist of the Silicon Valley-based startup Geminus.AI, which is focused on physics-informed AI to accelerate autonomous industrial operations.
Data Science and Learning Division Director, Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Ian Foster is Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, and also director of the Data Science and Learning Division, at Argonne National Laboratory, and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Ian received a BSc degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD from Imperial College, United Kingdom, both in computer science. His research deals with distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies, and innovative applications of those technologies to scientific problems in such domains as materials science, climate change, and biomedicine. Foster is a fellow of the AAAS, ACM, BCS, and IEEE, and an Office of Science Distinguished Scientists Fellow.
Under Secretary for Science,
Department of Energy
(Conference Keynote)
Dr. Darío Gil is Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. His office is the nation’s largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences, supporting all 17 National Laboratories of the United States, and responsible for programs including advanced computing, fusion, nuclear and high energy particle physics, basic energy sciences, and biological and environmental research. He is the department’s principal advisor on science and technology.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Darío Gil was IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research, where he was responsible for one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs.
Dr. Gil was elected to the National Academy of Engineering “for his contributions to artificial intelligence and quantum computing” and is a globally recognized leader of the quantum industry. Under his leadership, IBM was the first company in the world to build programmable quantum computers and make them universally available through the cloud.
Dr. Gil is an inventor and an institutional innovator, the force behind the creation of the International Science Reserve, the AI Alliance, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium.
Dr. Gil has served on the President’s Council of Science and Technology Advisors (PCAST) and on the National Science Board (NSB), where he was first member from industry to be elected chairman in 30 years. He has served on numerous boards including the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the New York Academy of Sciences, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the New York Hall of Science, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
Dr. Gil is the recipient of two honorary doctorates and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Chair, Board of Directors of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
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Director, RIKEN R-CCS
Professor Satoshi Matsuoka has been the director of Riken Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), the Tier-1 national HPC center for Japan, since April 2018, developing and hosting Japan’s flagship ‘Fu-
gaku’ supercomputer. Fugaku was the fastest supercomputer in the world in 2020 and 2021, supporting cutting-edge HPC research, including investigating Post-Moore era computing and especially the future FugakuNEXT supercomputer. Satoshi led the TSUBAME series of supercomputers that received much international acclaim at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he holds a professor position pursuing research in HPC, scalable big data, and AI. His longtime contribution was commended with the Medal of Honor with Purple ribbon by his Majesty Emperor Naruhito of Japan in 2022. Satoshi is a Fellow in ACM, ISC, IPSJ, and the JSSST and has won numerous awards, including ACM Gordon Bell Prizes, the IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Award, and the IEEE-CS Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.
Global Head of Advanced Computing, Amazon Web Services
Thierry Pellegrino is the Global head of Advanced Computing at AWS, a role in which he oversees HPC, domain-specific ML, IOT, and Quantum for the company. In his last industry role, Thierry was CEO of Penguin Computing, and prior to that he spent 23 years with Dell, where he was the Head of the HPC and AI business. Thierry has held multiple leadership roles over his career, ranging from engineering to strategy, M&A, and business leadership, and has had the privilege to sit on the board of GRC’s and Penn State’s ICDS.
Vice Provost for AI, Charles and Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies, University of Washington
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Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and Associate Vice President for Research, UT-Austin
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Associate Laboratory Director - CELS, Argonne National Laboratory | Professor of Computer Science, The University of Chicago
Rick Stevens is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago and the Associate Laboratory Director of the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) Directorate and Argonne Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. His research spans the computational and computer sciences from high-performance computing architecture to the development of advanced tools and methods. Recently, he has focused on developing AI methods for a variety of scientific and biomedical problems, and also has significant responsibility in delivering on the U.S. national initiative for Exascale computing and developing the DOE’s Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) initiative.
Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
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Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo
Rio Yokota is a Professor at the Supercomputing Research Center, Institute of Science Tokyo. He also leads the AI for Science Foundation Model Research Team at RIKEN CCS. His research interests lie at the intersection of HPC and ML. He has been optimizing algorithms on GPUs since 2007, and was part of a team that received the Gordon Bell prize in 2009 using the first GPU supercomputer. He has been leading distributed training efforts on Japanese supercomputers such as ABCI, TSUBAME, and Fugaku.
SVP, Strategic Technical Partnership and Public Policy, AMD
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