HPC Profession Notes: March 2023 Version

On this per month characteristic, we’ll stay you recent on the most recent profession trends for people within the high-performance computing neighborhood. Whether or not it’s a promotion, new corporate rent, and even an accolade, we’ve were given the main points. Test in every month for an up to date listing and you will even come throughout somebody you already know, or higher but, your self!


Kim Budil 

Lawrence Livermore Nationwide Laboratory Director Kim Budil was once decided on through the San Francisco Industry Occasions as probably the most Energy 100, an inaugural listing highlighting the highest 100 trade leaders within the Bay House. Budil is the thirteenth director of LLNL, the place she leads a team of workers of roughly 8,300 workers and manages an annual running price range of just about $3B.

“As director of LLNL, I’ve the chance to steer greater than 8,000 workers who ship cutting edge science and era to deal with probably the most largest demanding situations dealing with our country and the sector nowadays,” Budil mentioned. “It’s an honor to be incorporated with this workforce of remarkable leaders who additionally try to make a distinction for his or her workers and their communities.”

Françoise Chombar and Thomas Skotnicki 

Françoise Chombar, chairwoman and co-founder of Melexis, a fabless corporate founded in Europe, and Thomas Skotnicki, professor of Warsaw College of Generation and the Institute of Top Drive Physics, are the recipients of the Ecu SEMI Award and Particular Provider Award for 2022.

“We’re venerated to acknowledge Françoise Chombar and professor Thomas Skotnicki for his or her remarkable management and super contributions to Europe’s semiconductor neighborhood,” mentioned Laith Altimime, president of SEMI Europe. “Those atypical leaders were instrumental in serving to the semiconductor trade satisfy its ambitions and galvanizing long term generations to force towards a extra equitable, virtual and greener long term.”

Invoice Dally

Invoice Dally, leader scientist and senior vice chairman of analysis at Nvidia Corp. and an accessory professor and previous chair of Pc Science at Stanford College, was once inducted to the Silicon Valley Engineering Council’s Corridor of Popularity.

In a weblog posted through Nvidia, Dally mentioned, “I’m venerated to be inducted into the Silicon Valley Corridor of Popularity. The paintings for which I’m being identified is a part of a big workforce effort. Many school and scholars participated within the movement processing analysis at Stanford, and an overly huge workforce at NVIDIA was once curious about translating this analysis into GPU computing. This is a actually thrilling time to be a pc engineer. The long run is brilliant with much more tough packages ready to be speeded up the usage of the rules of movement processing and speeded up computing.”

James Deaton

Internet2 appointed James Deaton as its vice chairman of community services and products. Deaton might be answerable for main the strategic course and ongoing operations of Internet2’s community infrastructure and complex services and products in toughen of analysis, schooling, and international collaboration.

“I’m overjoyed to sign up for the proficient workforce at Internet2 and give a contribution to the group’s venture of advancing analysis and schooling thru state-of-the-art applied sciences,” mentioned Deaton. “I sit up for taking part with our participants and companions to proceed using innovation and pushing the bounds of what’s conceivable for the neighborhood.”

Adam Dolinko

SiFive, Inc. appointed Adam Dolinko as its leader felony officer and senior vice chairman of company construction. Dolinko brings over 25 years of enjoy to SiFive main, negotiating and shutting greater than 80 transformative company IPOs, mergers & acquisitions, and strategic offers.

“Time and time once more, Adam has delivered through main a success IPOs, M&A and complicated strategic offers with nearly each and every titan within the semiconductor ecosystem—he’s a key addition to our govt workforce,” mentioned Patrick Little, SiFive’s Chairman of the Board and CEO. “He brings seasoned management as an govt of public firms on other buying and selling markets, deep enjoy managing funding banks, and his trade experience maps at once to SiFive’s core sectors. We’re thrilled that he’s joined us as we paintings intently with consumers and strategic companions to proceed to hastily scale our trade and force the RISC-V ecosystem.”

James Eckstei and Philippe Guyot-Sionnest

James Eckstein from the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Philippe Guyot-Sionnest from the College of Chicago were inducted into the American Affiliation for the Development of Science Fellowship. Eckstein is identified as probably the most pioneers within the construction of ways for rising top quality oxide skinny movies for the investigation of elementary homes of cuprate superconductors and oxide magnetic fabrics.

Guyot-Sionnest explores nanoparticles and their optical homes, together with shell quantum dots, intraband quantum dot spectroscopy, and digital doping and ligand alternate methods that impart ohmic electric conductivity to movies of quantum dots.

Ryan Farris and Brandon Whitelaw

Qumulo appointed Ryan Farris as its vice chairman of product. Earlier than becoming a member of Qumulo, Farris was once the executive era officer at Anitian, a supplier of cloud safety and compliance automation. He additionally served because the product and engineering chief at Amazon.

As well as, Qumulo appointed Brandon Whitelaw as its vice chairman of strategic partnerships. Whitelaw additionally comes from Amazon the place he led international go-to-market technique for AWS’s garage portfolio in conjunction with vertical resolution construction. Previous to AWS, Whitelaw was once leader of technique for Dell’s Record and Object department.

Lisa Hammitt 

QuSecure, Inc. appointed Lisa Hammitt as its first impartial director. She recently serves as chairwoman of the board of administrators for Intelsat, in addition to an out of doors director with Glassbox Ltd. and Transparent Channel Out of doors.

“Quantum safety’s time has come, and I see QuSecure as essentially the most cutting edge corporate within the house,” mentioned Hammitt. “The extremely fine-grained encryption enabled through QuSecure’s era takes CISOs off the defensive and allows them to cope with threats prior to they emerge. It’s an honor to serve on QuSecure’s board, and I sit up for serving to them succeed in good fortune in one of these severely essential undertaking.”

Rajeeb Hazra 

Quantinuum appointed Rajeeb Hazra as its leader govt officer. Hazra has greater than 3 a long time of enjoy in supercomputing, quantum, and technical roles around the globe. He’s going to paintings intently with the manager workforce to boost up quantum computing and advance the commercialization of the corporate.

“I’m venerated to step into the CEO position, the place I’m excited to concentrate on serving to Quantinuum develop and force the inventions that may turn into the way in which quantum computing definitely affects the sector,” Hazra mentioned. “By way of development at the forged basis that Ilyas and the workforce have laid, we will be able to proceed to boost up Quantinuum into the long run.”

Rainer Kegel

Cortical.io, a Vienna-based synthetic intelligence developer, appointed Dr. Rainer Kegel as its leader govt officer. Kegel might be answerable for the strategic construction of the corporate.

“Information science is an absolute long term subject. It’s nonetheless slightly built-in into company processes, so I see monumental enlargement possible,” mentioned Kegel. “Cortical.io has evolved an AI gadget that is helping firms make labor-intensive, document-centric processes extra environment friendly. In lots of organizations, paperwork are nonetheless reviewed and processed manually as a result of no instrument is in a position to maintain the intricacies of human language. When hundreds of paperwork are concerned, this tedious, error-prone paintings ties up too many human sources. Cortical.io answers perceive the that means of textual content, an ability that allows the automation of recent venture workflows.”

Laurie Locascio

Laurie Locascio, beneath secretary of trade for requirements and era and director of the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Generation (NIST), has been elected to the Nationwide Academy of Engineering. Locascio leads NIST’s collaborative efforts with trade, academia and govt to unharness U.S. innovation through advancing era, measurements and requirements.

Locascio could also be running to advance and develop NIST’s paintings in rising applied sciences akin to synthetic intelligence, quantum data science, cybersecurity and privateness, biotechnology, power and complex communications.

David Ramku 

The Open Compute Challenge Basis, the non-profit group bringing hyperscale inventions to all, appointed David Ramku of Meta to its board of administrators. Previous to becoming a member of Meta, Ramku spent 18 years at Intel. In his most up-to-date position, he served because the Normal Supervisor of the Infrastructure Processing Unit trade.

“The OCP Basis and the Group welcomes David and we’re excited to have his management and enjoy to assist information us thru the following decade and past. We additionally want to categorical our gratitude to Mark Roenigk for his long-standing services and products, toughen and steerage,” mentioned George Tchaparian, CEO for the Open Compute Challenge Basis.

Tuomas Sandholm

Tuomas Sandholm, a professor at Carnegie Mellon College’s Faculty of Pc Science, was once identified with the AAAI Award for Synthetic Intelligence for the Advantage of Humanity. He was once awarded for his contributions to the design and implementation of organ exchanges and their direct have an effect on on each observe and coverage.

“Sandholm has been a pacesetter in conceptual inventions and is curious about coverage round this life-saving paintings. By way of mixing state-of-the-art science and instrument with tireless efforts to peer those strategies put into observe, his have an effect on on person lives, households and society is inspiring,” the AAAI mentioned within the award announcement.

Stefan Savage

Stefan Savage, a professor within the Division of Pc Science and Engineering on the UC San Diego Jacobs Faculty of Engineering, was once elected to the Nationwide Academy of Engineering.  Savage was once identified for his contributions to the safety, privateness and reliability of community programs, remodeling approaches to issues in those spaces.

Savage has additionally won a MacArthur “genius” award, the ACM Prize in Computing, which acknowledges the best achievements within the box, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He’s additionally the primary researcher to have won the “Check of Time” award from every of the main laptop safety meetings: IEEE Safety & Privateness, ACM Pc and Communications Safety and USENIX Safety.

James Simon

Quantum Computing Inc., a full-stack quantum instrument and {hardware} corporate, appointed James Simon, a former senior Central Intelligence Company officer and previous govt at Microsoft to determine and lead the Corporate’s technical advisory board.

“With the commercialization of QCI’s preliminary product providing, I imagine the corporate’s choice to release a technical advisory board is well-timed,” mentioned Simon. “Our venture is to make sure that the strategic evolution of QCI’s era meets its targets, whilst last sufficiently agile to confront the demanding situations inherent in an rising box.  A key position of the board is to assist care for a stability between aggressive, technological construction and successful financial enlargement.”

Sibendu Som

Sibendu Som, a scientist on the U.S. Division of Power’s Argonne Nationwide Laboratory, has been designated a fellow through the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Som leads the Complex Power Generation directorate’s synthetic intelligence and excessive functionality computing initiative.

“I’m venerated and humbled to obtain this prestigious reputation from ASME. I want to thank my superb workforce and lots of mentors over time who’ve motivated me to pursue computational analysis,” Som mentioned. ​“Maximum of my provider to ASME has been during the Interior Combustion Engine department, and I would really like thank them for the opportunity to serve the department.”

James Barr von Oehsen

James Barr von Oehsen was once appointed because the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Middle, a joint analysis middle of Carnegie Mellon College and the College of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen joined PSC from New Jersey the place he served because the affiliate vice chairman for the Place of business of Complex Analysis Computing at Rutgers, The State College of New Jersey, and the co-lead of the New Jersey Alliance for Scientific and Translational Science informatics workforce.

“As somebody who has a robust connection to the Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem, I’m very acquainted with PSC and its many achievements and recognition as an international chief,” mentioned von Oehsen. “The considered being concerned with transferring PSC to the following degree in advancing science and analysis is very thrilling and an honor.”

Mike Witherell

The Nationwide Academy of Sciences elected Berkeley Lab director Mike Witherell to serve on its management council. The NAS council is the board of administrators of the group and contains 5 elected officials and 12 further participants, 4 of whom are elected every 12 months. Councilors are elected to three-year phrases.

Witherell has been a NAS member since 1998. He’s a fellow of the American Bodily Society, the American Affiliation for the Development of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berkeley Lab is the second one nationwide laboratory he has led; he headed Fermi Nationwide Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) from 1999 to 2005.

Danfeng Yao 

Virginia Tech’s Danfeng “Daphne” Yao was once increased to fellow, the absolute best grade of club within the Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Yao is a professor within the Division of Pc Science and associate school on the Sanghani Middle for Synthetic Intelligence and Information Analytics at Virginia Tech. She was once increased to fellow for for her contributions to venture knowledge safety and high-precision vulnerability screening.

Yao has been an IEEE member since 2007 serving in numerous roles, together with as program chair for the IEEE Protected Building Convention in 2019 and guidance committee chair for the convention from 2019-22. As well as, Yao was once affiliate editor for IEEE Transactions on Unswerving and Protected Computing from 2014-18 and co-editor of the IEEE Safety and Privateness 2021 Particular Factor at the Annual Pc Safety Packages Convention in 2020.

Rocky Undertaking Tool Basis Board of Administrators 

The Rocky Undertaking Tool Basis appointed Louis Abel, Benjamin Agner,  Chris DiBona, Greg Kroah-Hartman, and Mark Watson to the newly shaped board of administrators. They are going to be answerable for main the hassle to maintain the longevity, stewardship and innovation of enterprise-grade open supply instrument this is at all times freely to be had. For extra main points on every member, click on right here.

SEMI Semiconductor Local weather Consortium Governing Council

SEMI, the trade affiliation serving the worldwide electronics production and design provide chain, elected the Semiconductor Local weather Consortium governing council participants and its chair and vice-chair. For main points on every member, click on right here.

“The Semiconductor Local weather Consortium Governing Council brings in combination sustainability leaders from around the international provide chain and their election marks any other key milestone at the trade’s trail to internet 0,” mentioned Ajit Manocha, SEMI president and CEO. “I commend the Council participants for his or her dedication to this a very powerful effort to forge shared answers at the maximum difficult local weather problems.”


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