Presenter

William Gropp is Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1982 and worked at Yale University and Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential equations. He is a co-author of "Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface," and is a chapter author in the MPI Forum. His current projects include Delta and DeltaAI, which are computing systems emphasizing GPU computing, and the development of new programming systems and numerical algorithms for scalable scientific computing. He is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.