Presenter

Dr. Robert F. Lucas is an Ansys Fellow where he is responsible for the default multifrontal linear solver used in LS-DYNA and MAPDL. Previously, he was the Operational Director of the USC–Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center. Prior to joining USC, he was the Head of the High-Performance Computing Research Department in the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prior to joining NERSC, Robert was the Deputy Director of DARPA's Information Technology Office. From 1988 to 1998 he was a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defense
Analyses' Center for Computing Sciences. From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of the Technical Staff of the Hughes Aircraft Company. Robert received his BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1983, and 1988 respectively.