Presenter

Benjamin Brown is the Director of the Facilities Division in the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR). Ben leads and executes the conception, construction, and operation of DOE’s world-leading research supercomputing, data, and networking infrastructure to enable the DOE mission and the national research enterprise. Ben is the lead architect of the Department’s Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) effort to accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation through seamless interoperability of experimental, observational, computational, network, and data infrastructure. Ben has been a member of the federal Senior Executive Service since 2020. He also served as the founding program manager of DOE’s Project Leadership Institute (2014-2021). He is an experimental physicist with specialization in ultrafast optics, ultracold atomic physics, and quantum information science, with research experience in the U.S. and UK. He holds a PhD in optics from the University of Rochester and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University.