Keynote Speakers

Satoshi Matsuoka

Satoshi Matsuoka had been a Full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC), the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2001, and the director of the joint AIST-Tokyo Tech. Real World Big Data Computing Open Innovation Laboratory (RWBC-OIL) since 2017, and will become a Specially Appointed Professor at Tokyo Tech starting 2018 along with his directorship at R-CCS. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1993.

He has been the leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers that have won many accolades such as world #1 in power-efficient computing. He also leads various major supercomputing research projects in areas such as parallel algorithms and programming, resilience, green computing, and convergence of big data/AI with HPC. He has been a major driving force behind the development of the next-generation flagship supercomputer of Japan, the supercomputer Fugaku. In June 2020 Fugaku won the first place in four major rankings of supercomputer performance, Top500, HPCG, HPL-AI, and Graph500.

He has written over 500 articles according to Google Scholar, and chaired numerous ACM/IEEE conferences, including the Program Chair at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC13) in 2013. He is a Fellow of the ACM and European ISC, and has won many awards, including the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2006, presented by his Highness Prince Akishino; the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011; the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012; the 2014 IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, the highest prestige in the field of HPC; HPDC 2018 Achievement Award from ACM; and recently SC Asia 2019 HPC Leadership Award.

He is director of RIKEN Center for Computational Science.

 

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Katherine Yelick

Katherine Yelick is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Associate Dean for Research in the Division of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS) at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Senior Advisor on Computing at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in high performance computing, programming systems, parallel algorithms, and computational genomics. She is well known for her work in Partitioned Global Address Space languages, including co-inventing the Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Titanium languages. She has worked on interdisciplinary teams developing scientific applications ranging from simulations of chemistry, fusion, and blood flow in the heart to analysis problems in phylogenetics and genome assembly. She currently leads the ExaBiome project on Exascale Solutions for Microbiome Analysis.

Yelick was Director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) from 2008 to 2012 and the led the Computing Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab from 2010 through 2019, where she oversaw NERSC, the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the Computational Research Division of scientists and engineers in applied math, computer science, data science and computational science. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 1991 with a joint research appointment at Berkeley Lab since 1996.

Yelick is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). She is a recipient of the ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy award and the ACM-W Athena award. She previously served as a member of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), the California Council on Science and Technology and the LLNS/LANS Science and Technology Committee overseeing research at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.

 

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Walfredo Cirne

Dr. Walfredo Cirne has worked on the many aspects of parallel scheduling and cluster management for the past 25 years. He is currently with the Technical Infrastructure Group at Google in Mountain View, California, where he leads Flex, Google's solution for resource management of its internal Cloud. Previously, he was faculty at the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, where he led the OurGrid project. Dr. Cirne holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego, and Bachelors and Masters from the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.

 

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Frank Würthwein

Prof. Wuerthwein pursues research in physics and cyberinfrastructure. His research in physics is focused on fundamental properties of matter, and its interactions. As such, his group analyzes data taken with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Wuerthwein’s physics focus includes studies of the Higgs and top particles, and searches for new phenomena, with a special focus on studies that might reveal the nature of dark matter. His research in Cyberinfrastructure is focused on distributed High Throughput Computing (dHTC) across commercial cloud and on-prem resources at campuses globally. His dHTC group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center operates global workflow and data infrastructures for open science from individual researchers to global collaborations like CMS, LIGO, and IceCube.

 

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