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Dr. Edoardo Di Napoli
Head of Sim&Data Lab Quantum Materials
Jülich Supercomputing Center, FZJ, Germany
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Dr. Xinzhe Wu
Senior Scientific Researcher
Jülich Supercomputing Center, FZJ, Germany
Dr. Xinzhe Wu is specializing in numerical linear algebra and high-performance computing. His research focuses on subspace methods for solving eigenvalue problems, with expertise in parallel matrix operations, task-based programming, and the application of machine learning in materials science.
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Dr. Fabio Affinito
Head of application support team
CINECA, Italy
Fabio Affinito graduated in Physics at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, in 2003 and got a PhD in Physics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research interests are on software research engineering and development of applications for large scale classical and quantum atomistic simulations. He is currently the head of the application support team in CINECA and in this position he contributes to many EU funded projects (MaX, EPICURE, HANAMI, GANANA, etc.)
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Prof. Hartwig Anzt
Professor
TU Munich, Germany
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Prof. Paolo Bientinesi
Professor, Director
Umeå University, Sweden
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Prof. Volker Blum
Associate Professor
Duke University, USA
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Dr. Alfredo Buttari
Research Director
CNRS, IRIT, France
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Dr. Alfredo A. Correa
Group Leader, Quantum Simulations Group, Physics Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Alfredo A. Correa is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research focuses on the application, theoretical development, and software engineering of first-principles methods. These methods are used to describe matter under extreme conditions, including equations of state, as well as non-equilibrium and non-adiabatic coupled electron-ion quantum dynamics. Alfredo earned his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Balseiro Institute in Argentina and completed his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008. Following a postdoctoral position at Stanford University, he joined the Physics Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a Lawrence Fellow in 2009. Since 2022, Alfredo has served as the Group Leader of the Quantum Simulations Group at LLNL. Alfredo is currently Thrust Leader, Software Manager at the “Center for Non-Perturbative Studies of Functional Materials under Non-Equilibrium Conditions” where he develops code for massively parallel MPI-interconnected GPU-based computers. He is a member of the C++ Standards Committee and a contributor to the MPI Forum.
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Dr. Davor Davidovic
Senior research associate
Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
Davor Davidović is a Senior Research Associate and Head of the Center for Informatics and Computing at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. His research focuses on parallel and distributed computing, code optimization, hybrid and GPU programming, and the development of scalable numerical linear algebra codes for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. He has more than 15 years of experience in developing and optimizing codes for computational chemistry, materials science and theoretical physics for massively parallel systems with multi-GPU architectures.
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Dr. William Dawson
Research Scientist
RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan
William Dawson is a research scientist at RIKEN. His research is at the intersection of linear algebra and computational chemistry.
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Dr. Pietro Delugas
Research Software Engineer
SISSA, Italy
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Dr. Andrea Ferretti
Senior Researcher
CNR, Istituto Nanoscienze, Italy
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Dr. Takeshi Fukaya
Associate Professor
Hokkaido University, Japan
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Dr. Alberto Garcia
Staff Researcher
Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain
A physicist with a wide experience in the development of ab-initio simulation methods and their applications in physics, materials science, and geophysics. One of the maintainers of the SIESTA code (http://siesta-project.org/siesta), and participant in international initiatives in scientific data management and computational frameworks.
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Dr. Mark Gates
Research Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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Dr. Luigi Genovese
Researcher
Atomistic Simulation Laboratory - CEA Grenoble, France
Luigi Genovese is a computational physicist with a background in theoretical high-energy physics. His research focuses on the design and implementation of novel algorithms for large-scale quantum simulations, with applications in solid-state physics, quantum chemistry, and the life sciences. He is a core developer of the BigDFT code, a wavelet-based DFT package designed for high-performance computing, and actively contributes to the development of exascale-ready methods in electronic structure theory and sparse numerical linear algebra.
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Dr. Andreas Herten
Joint-head of Division Novel System Architecture Design
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, FZJ, Germany
Andreas researches accelerators in High-Performance Computing in the intersection between users and vendors, optimizing applications for the respective devices - especially GPUs. He is a joint-lead of the Novel System Architecture Division and heads the Accelerating Devices Lab.
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Dr. Ben Hourahine
Senior Lecturer
University of Strathclyde, UK
25+ years of experience in HPC, materials modeling and method development, including founding developer of the DFTB+ project and various computational physics projects including a high-precision semi-analytical electromagnetic solver, Monte Carlo tools for simulating crystal growth and machine learning for semi-empirical electronic structure and scanning electron microscopy.
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Dr. Toshiyuki Imamura
Team Leader
RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Kleefeld
Group leader of Algorithm, Tools and Methods Lab: Numerical and Statistical Methods
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, FZJ, Germany & Medical Engineering and Technomathematics, University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany
Andreas Kleefeld works on boundary integral equations, non-linear eigenvalue problems, acoustic and electromagnetic scattering problems as well as inverse problems
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Dr. Hemanth Kolla
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Hemanth Kolla has a primary research interest in HPC for multi-physics turbulent flows. He has 15 years of research expertise spanning HPC fault-tolerance, tensor decompositions, scalable algorithms, and programming models.
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Dr. Thomas Kühne
Director of CASUS
HZDR/CASUS, Germany
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Dr. Piotr Luszczek
Research Staff
MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
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Dr. Andreas Marek
Head of AI and HPDA division; Head of ELPA development
Max-Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), Germany
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Dr. Stepan Nassyr
Researcher
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, FZJ, Germany
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Prof. Matt Probert
Professor of Computational Physics
University of York, UK
Prof. Matt Probert has over 30 years experience of HPC and modelling of materials at the quantum level, and is one of the core developers of the CASTEP code. Matt also teaches scientific computing and HPC at the University of York.
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Prof. Jose E. Roman
Professor
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Jose E. Roman obtained a PhD in computer science in 2003 from UPV. His research interest is in software engineering for large-scale scientific computing, particularly parallel codes for numerical linear algebra computation. He is a co-author of PETSc and lead developer of SLEPc, the Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations.
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Dr. Raffaele Solcà
Research Software Engineer
ETH Zurich, CSCS, Switzerland
Raffaele Solcà obtained a Phd in physics at ETH Zurich in 2016. His interests are in linear algebra, in particular in GPU implementations. He made key contributions to the eigensolvers within the MAGMA library, and currently leads the development of the DLA-Future library.
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Dr. Robert Speck
Deputy director of JSC, head of the division Mathematics and Education
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, FZJ, Germany
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Prof. Rio Yokota
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Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
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Overall Expertise Distribution
High-Performance Computing
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Parallel Programming
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Software Development
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Algorithm Development
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Numerical Linear Algebra
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Scientific Computing
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members
Low-level Optimization
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Applied Mathematics
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Electronic Structure Theory/Calculation
3
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Automation
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AI
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Interface Development
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member