Presenter

Erik Draeger is the Deputy Director of Application Development for the Exascale Computing Project, as well as the High Performance Computing group leader at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2001 and has over a decade of experience developing scientific applications to achieve maximum scalability and time-to-solution on next-generation architectures. Erik has been a finalist for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize five times since 2005 and won the prize in 2006.