Presenter

Dr. Robert W. Wisniewski is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, IEEE Senior Member, the CTO and Chief Architect for High Performance Computing and a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. He is the technical lead and PI for Aurora, the supercomputer to be delivered to Argonne National Laboratory that will achieve greater than an exaflop of computation. He is also the lead architect for Intel's cohesive and comprehensive software stack that was used to seed OpenHPC, and serves on the OpenHPC governance board as chairman. He has published over 80 papers in the area of high performance computing, computer systems, and system performance, has filed over 59 patents with 46 issued, has an h-index of 40 with over 6700 citations, and has given over 73 external invited presentations. Before coming to Intel, he was the chief software architect for Blue Gene Research and manager of the Blue Gene and Exascale Research Software Team at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Facility, where he was an IBM Master Inventor and led the software effort on Blue Gene/Q, which received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, was the most powerful computer in the world in June 2012, and occupied 4 of the top 10 positions on Top 500 list.