Presenter

Wes Bland is a Research Scientist at Meta Platforms focusing primarily on HPC communication co-design. He has spent more than 15 years working in the HPC communication space, including contributions to the MPI Standard as well as MPI implementations. He was previously the chair of the fault tolerance working group and has held the position of MPI Forum Secretary since 2017. Wesley received his PhD in computer science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.