Bio: Vipin Kumar is a Regents Professor and holds William Norris Chair in the department of Computer Science and Engineering  at the University of Minnesota.  His research interests include data mining, high-performance computing, and their applications in Climate/Ecosystems and health care. He is currently leading an NSF Expedition project on understanding climate change using data driven […]

Bio: Anna Krylov is a Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering, Chemistry at the University of Southern California. She received her M.Sc. in Chemistry from Moscow State University and later her Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Upon completing her Ph.D. in 1996 (summa cum laude), she joined the group of Prof. Martin […]

Bio: Steven White did his bachelor's degree at the University of California in San Diego and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Early in his career he was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship, and an IBM postdoctoral fellowship. He’s been named an American Physical Society fellow, and a fellow of the American Association for […]

Bio: Michael Eldred is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification Department within the Computation, Computers, Information, and Mathematics Center at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1989, his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in […]

Bio: Eric Jankowski is an assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2012, where he developed computational tools to study the self-assembly of nanoparticles. These tools leveraged graphics processors to accelerate computations and provided insight into systems of […]

Bio: Yongjie Jessica Zhang is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University with a courtesy appointment in Biomedical Engineering. She received her B.Eng. in Automotive Engineering, and M.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University, China; and M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and Ph.D. in Computational Engineering and Sciences from Institute for […]

Bio: Margaret Cheung is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Houston. She graduated from the National Taiwan University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego. She carried out theoretical biological physics and bioinformatics research as a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow at […]