Presenter

Mark Taylor specializes in numerical methods for parallel computing and atmospheric flows. He currently serves as chief computational scientist for the DOE's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project. He led the development of the spectral element-based dynamical core used in E3SM's atmospheric model.

Mark received his PhD from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1992. He joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2004 and was promoted to Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 2018. In 2014 he was awarded (with Drs. David Bader and William Collins) the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for his work unifying the Department of Energy's climate modeling research community, enabling the development of high-resolution fully-coupled climate system simulations. Mark led the E3SM team that was awarded the 2023 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crises.