Presenter

Mike Heroux is a senior research scientist at ParaTools, Inc. and Scientist in Residence at St. John’s University in Minnesota. His research interests include all aspects of scalable scientific and engineering software for new and emerging parallel computing architectures. He leads the PESO Project to steward and advance scientific software ecosystems for HPC-AI applications and computing systems.

Mike was a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories from May 1998 to October 2024, and was the director of software technology for the U.S. Exascale Computing Project from 2017-2024. He is the founder of the Trilinos scientific libraries, Kokkos performance portability libraries and tools, the Mantevo miniapps, and HPCG Benchmark, and is presently leading the Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) project in DOE, a curated collection of HPC software targeting leadership platforms.