Presenter

Damian Rouson leads Berkeley Lab’s Computer Languages and Systems Software Group. He researches language-based parallel and GPU programming for deep learning and HPC applications in Fortran 2023. He also leads Berkeley Lab’s LLVM Flang compiler work, including the Caffeine parallel runtime library. He co-authored the textbook "Scientific Software Design: The Object-Oriented Way" (2011), and has taught related courses at Stanford University and the University of Cyprus, and tutorials at conferences. He serves on the Fortran standards committee. He has held positions at the City University of New York, the University of Maryland, the University of Cyprus, the University of Bergen, the Naval Research Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. He received a 2020-2021 Better Scientific Software Fellowship and LBNL's 2024 Developer of the Year award. He founded Archaeologic Inc. and Sourcery Institute. He holds a BS from Howard University and an MS and PhD from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering.