Presenter

Wahid Bhimji is Acting Group Lead and Big Data Architect in the Data, AI and Analytics Group at the NERSC supercomputing centre based at Berkeley National Laboratory. His interests include machine learning and data management. Recently he led several projects applying AI for science including deep learning at scale, generative models and probabilistic programming. He coordinates aspects of machine learning deployment for the Lab's CS-Area and NERSC: including the upcoming Perlmutter HPC system and plans for future NERSC machines. Wahid has worked for many years in Scientific Computing and Data Analysis in Academia and the U.K. Government and has a Ph.D. in High-Energy Particle Physics.