Invited Technical Talks

2026

• Ninth Tallinn Digital Summit, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 5–6 November 2026
• Delaware’s DNA 2026 Life Science Conference, Invited Panelist, Delaware, USA — April 2026
• “In-Transit Learning at Exascale: A Streaming ML Workflow for Scientific Simulations,” SIAM Parallel Processing, Invited Talk, Berlin, Germany — March 2026
• OpenACC User Workshop, co-located with SCA2026, Osaka, Japan — January 2026

2025

• “The State of AI in Delaware,” New Castle Chamber of Commerce, Delaware, USA — July 2025
• “Preparing Graduates for the AI-Driven Future: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Industry,” State of Delaware AI Commission’s Subcommittee, Delaware, USA — March 2025
• “The Artificial Scientist — Leveraging In-Transit Machine Learning for Plasma Simulations,” Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen National High-Performance Computing Center, Remote — May 2025
• “The Artificial Scientist — Leveraging In-Transit Machine Learning for Plasma Simulations,” Salishan Conference on High Speed Computing, Portland, USA — April 2025
• “The Artificial Scientist — Leveraging In-Transit Machine Learning for Plasma Simulations,” Multicore-World, Christchurch, New Zealand — February 2025
• “High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research with Research Software Engineers (RSE),” UD’s Synthetic Biology Symposium, Delaware, USA — January 2025
• “The Artificial Scientist — Leveraging In-Transit Machine Learning for Plasma Simulations,” Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, NJ, USA — January 2025
• “Surrogate Models — A Frontier to Explore in Healthcare,” AI4Health, Delaware, USA — January 2025

2024

• “Convergence of High Performance Computing and AI/Machine Learning for Real-World Applications,” UD’s College of Engineering Advisory Council — October 2024
• “Advancing Interdisciplinary Science using AI & High Performance Computing,” Incyte, Delaware, USA — October 2024
• “Software Advancements Meeting Hardware Innovations: Challenges and Solutions,” IEEE Cluster Keynote, Kobe, Japan — September 2024
• “Scaling Real-World Applications on Heterogeneous Platforms Including Frontier,” TU Munich, Germany — April 2024
• “OpenMP Validation and Verification Test-Suite Insights and Lessons Learnt,” SIAM PP, Baltimore, USA — March 2024

2023

• “Advancing Science by Facilitating Easier Access to HPC and Cloud Resources,” HPE HPC & AI Cloud Services Teams, Remote — September 2023
• “Plasma Physics on Frontier and Future of LLMs,” HPE CTO Labs, Remote — September 2023
• “ECP SOLLVE Test-Suite Infrastructure,” HPE Compiler Teams, Remote — September 2023
• Lecture on ECP and Parallel Programming, KTH Summer School, Stockholm, Sweden — August 2023
• “Leveraging Exascale Computing Resources for Particle-In-Cell on GPU (PIConGPU),” SIAM CSE 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — February 2023
• “Leveraging Exascale Computing Resources for Particle-In-Cell on GPU (PIConGPU),” Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, USA — 2023

2022

• “Challenges and Success Stories Migrating Software and Applications to Frontier,” Keynote at IPDRM Workshop @ SC22, Dallas, TX — November 2022
• “ECP SOLLVE at the DOE Booth,” SC22, Dallas, TX — November 2022
• “The Race to Frontier,” Stony Brook University, NY — September 2022
• “Preparing Effective Grant Proposals — University Resources,” Early Career Program at SC22, Dallas, TX — November 2022
• “The Good, Bad and the Ugly with PIConGPU on Frontier,” AMD, Remote — September 2022
• “Preparing PIConGPU for Next-Generation Computing Systems,” Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY — January 2022

2021 (Virtual Talks)

• “Experience with Porting and Scaling Codes on AMD GPUs,” First PaCER Conference (P’con) — December 2021
• “How Ready Are We to Use the First Exascale Supercomputer, Frontier?,” DOE ECP Booth — November 2021
• “Best Practices for a Productive Yet Performant Software Development,” 2021 Europe ACM Summer School — August 2021
• “An HPC Journey — Porting a Solar Physics Code to Large Scale Systems,” The Society of HPC Professionals — July 2021
• “Ten Ways to Build a Productive Yet Performant Software,” Supercomputing Frontiers Europe — July 2021
• “Programming Frontier: Challenges and Solutions,” OLCF User Group Meeting — June 2021
• “Present and Future of Accelerated Computing Programming Approaches,” Panelist, NVIDIA GTC — March 2021
• “Exascale Simulations for the Next Generation of Plasma Accelerators with PIConGPU,” SIAM CSE 2021 — February 2021
• “Preparing to Program the World’s Fastest Supercomputer,” NSF-Funded DARWIN System Symposium, University of Delaware — February 2021

2020 (Virtual Talks)

• “Evolution of a Project,” Students at the Supercomputing Conference (SC) Program — November 2020
• “Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing (HiPar20),” SC, Panelist — November 2020
• “Developing Software for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Platforms — Fun or a Nightmare?,” University of Tennessee Knoxville Seminar Series — October 2020
• “Research Activities at CRPL,” Hierarchical Computations on Manycore Architecture Group, KAUST, Saudi Arabia — August 2020
• “Preparing Software Stack for the Next Generation Systems — An Opportunity or a Nightmare?,” P2S2 Workshop @ ICPP 2020 — August 2020
• “Scientific Software Productivity — Case Studies, Challenges, Opportunities and Potential Solutions,” 2020 Collegeville Workshop on Scientific Software — July 2020
• “ECP SOLLVE: OpenMP Validation and Verification Effort,” OpenPOWER Academia and Research Webinar — June 2020
• “GPUs for Science Day 2020,” NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA — June 2020
• “Training and Best Practices to Develop Portable Yet Performant Code,” SIAM PP, Seattle, USA — February 2020

2019

• “Running PIConGPU on Summit and Preparing PIConGPU for Frontier,” 4th OpenPOWER Academic and Research Workshop, SC, Denver, USA — November 2019
• “OpenMP 4.5 Validation and Verification Test-Suite,” 4th OpenPOWER Academic and Research Workshop, SC, Denver, USA — November 2019
• “Applying Directives to Port MURaM Code to Heterogeneous Systems,” ASTRONUM, Paris, France — July 2019
• “Development of a Parallel Algorithm for WGS Alignment for Rapid Delivery of Personalized Genomics,” PASC Minisymposium, Zurich, Switzerland — June 2019
• “Impact of Parallel Programming Models on Interdisciplinary Scientific Research,” University of Basel, Switzerland — June 2019
• “OpenACC-Based GPU Acceleration of Chemical Shift Prediction,” Invited Featured Speaker, GTC, California, USA — March 2019
• “Porting MURaM (Max Planck University of Chicago Radiative MHD) to GPUs Using OpenACC,” Invited Speaker, GTC, California, USA — March 2019
• “Acceleration of Prediction of Chemical Shift Structures,” SIAM CSE, Spokane, USA — February 2019

2018

• “Development of a Parallel Algorithm for Whole Genome Alignment for Rapid Delivery of Personalized Genomics,” NSF-Funded International BDEC Meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA — November 2018
• “3P to Science Using OpenACC: Performance, Productivity, and Portability,” NVIDIA Booth at SC Showfloor, Dallas — November 2018
• “Swiss Army Programming: Performance and Portability from Modern Tools,” Invited Panelist, SC18, Dallas — November 2018
• “Using the Parallel Programming Model OpenACC to Do More Science and Less Programming,” Bootcamp, Princeton University, NJ, USA — October 2018
• “HPC-as-a-Service to Domain Scientists,” PASC Minisymposium, Basel, Switzerland — July 2018
• “Opportunities and Challenges Migrating Scientific Code to Accelerators,” National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, USA — June 2018
• “Achieving Performance While Preserving Portability for NGS Application,” SIAM PP, Tokyo, Japan — March 2018
• “Adapting Minisweep, a Proxy Application, on Heterogeneous Systems Using OpenACC Directives,” Featured Speaker, GTC, California, USA — March 2018
• “Path Forward for Softwarization to Tackle Evolving Hardware,” SPIE, Orlando, USA — April 2018

2017

• “Parallelization and Acceleration of the Nuclear Reactor Mini-App Minisweep on an OpenPOWER Platform,” 2nd OpenPOWER Academia Discussion Group Workshop, SC, Denver, USA — November 2017
• “Building Your Academic Professional Network,” Grace Hopper Celebrations, Houston, USA — October 2017
• “Using OpenACC for NGS Techniques to Create a Portable and Easy-to-Use Code Base,” GTC, California, USA — March 2017
• “Exploring On-Node Programming Models for Irregular Algorithms,” SIAM CSE, Atlanta, USA — February 2017
• “Programmer’s Perspective on Evolving Hardware: Challenges and Success Stories,” Invited Guest Lecture, RWTH Aachen, Germany — February 2017

2016 and Before

• “Hackathons and Best Practices in HPC Training,” Workshop co-located at SC16, Salt Lake City, USA — November 2016
• “OpenACC Status and Feedback,” Birds of a Feather (BoF), GTC, San Jose, USA — May 2016
• “OpenACC API: User Experience, Vendor Reaction, Relevance, and Roadmap,” Birds of a Feather Speaker, SC16, Salt Lake City — November 2016
• “Industry Standards for Programming Multicore Systems: Way to Go!,” Multicore Devcon Conference (MDC), Santa Clara, CA — May 2014
• “Exascale Will Soon Be Here — How Prepared Are We?,” Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA — April 2014
• “Simplifying Heterogeneous Multicore Programming Using Industry Standards,” SIAM PP, Portland — February 2014
• “Open Registry for Accelerated Computing,” Many-Core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference (MRSC), Bristol, UK — 2011