Amit Majumdar is the Division Director of the Data Enabled Scientific Computing (DESC) division at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences at the University of California San Diego.  His research interests are in high performance computing, computational science, cyberinfrastructure and science gateways. He has developed parallel algorithms and implemented them on various kinds of HPC machines and is interested in understanding performance and scalability of scientific applications on HPC machines. He is the PI of multiple research projects funded by the NSF, NIH, DOD, AFOSR and industries such as Intel, Microsoft. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, and master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and doctoral degree in the interdisciplinary program of Nuclear Engineering and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Karl W. Schulz received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas in 1999. After completing a one-year post-doc, he transitioned to the commercial software industry working for the CD-Adapco group as a Senior Project Engineer to develop and support engineering software in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). After several years in industry, Karl returned to the University of Texas in 2003, joining the research staff at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), a leading research center for advanced computational science, engineering and technology. During his 10-year tenure at TACC, Karl was actively engaged in HPC research, scientific curriculum development and teaching, technology evaluation and integration, and strategic initiatives serving on the Center's leadership team as an Associate Director and leading TACC's HPC group and Scientific Applications group during his time at TACC. Karl also served as the Chief Software Architect for the PECOS Center within the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), a research group focusing on the development of next-generation software to support multi-physics simulations and uncertainty quantification. In 2014, Karl joined the Data Center Group at Intel working on the architecture, development, and validation of HPC system software. Serving as a Principal Engineer, Karl led the technical design and release of OpenHPC, a Linux Foundation community project focused on the integration of common building-blocks for HPC systems. He continues to be actively engaged in this project, currently serving as the overall Project Leader. In 2018, Karl returned to the University of Texas in an interdisciplinary role as a Research Associate Professor within ICES and Associate Professor within the Women's Health Department at the Dell Medical School.

Shantenu Jha is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, and Department Chair for Data Driven Discovery at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research interests are at the intersection of high-performance distributed computing and computational science. Shantenu leads the the RADICAL-Cybertools project which are a suite of middleware building blocks used to support large-scale science and engineering applications. He collaborates extensively with scientists from multiple domains -- including but not limited to Molecular Sciences, Earth Sciences and High-Energy Physics. He was appointed a Rutgers Chancellor's Scholar (2015-2020) and was the recipient of the inaugural Chancellor's Excellence in Research (2016) for his cyberinfrastructure contributions to computational science. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2013) and several prizes at SC'xy and ISC'xy. More details can be found at http://radical.rutgers.edu/shantenu

Sushil K. Prasad is a Program Director at National Science Foundation in its Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and a Professor of Computer Science at Georgia State University. He is the director of Distributed and Mobile Systems Lab carrying out research in Parallel, Distributed, and Data Intensive Computing and Systems. He has been twice-elected chair of IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), and leads the NSF-supported TCPP Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing for undergraduate education.

Dr. Sameer Shende has helped develop the TAU Performance System, the Program Database Toolkit (PDT), and the HPCLinux distro. His research interests include tools and techniques for performance instrumentation, measurement, analysis, runtime systems, and compiler optimizations. He serves as the Director of the Performance Research Laboratory at the University of Oregon, and as the President and Director of ParaTools, Inc., ParaTools, SAS, and ParaTools, Ltd.

Dr. Alessandro Fanfarillo is a Senior Software Engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His work is mostly devoted to performance enhancement of parallel weather models, GPGPU computing and software design/refactoring of scientific codes. His research focuses on how to exploit heterogeneous architectures CPU+Accelerators and Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages (in particular coarray Fortran) for scientific purposes. He is also the lead developer of OpenCoarrays, the open-source library that implements the coarray support in the GNU Fortran compiler.

Toshihiro Hanawa is an associate professor of Supercomputing Research Division, Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, which he joined in 2013. Before joining the University of Tokyo, he was an associate professor of Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and he has been playing the role as the chief architect for HA-PACS/TCA system which is high-density GPU cluster employing proprietary inter-GPU communication over the compute node using FPGA. From 2016, he has been working as the system operation member of Oakforest-PACS under JCAHPC. He received the M.E. degree and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Keio University.

Jidong Zhai is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University and a visiting assistant professor of Stanford University (2015-2016). He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in 2010, with the Excellent Ph.D. Graduate Student Award of Tsinghua University. His research is focusing on high performance computing, compiler optimization, performance analysis and optimization of large-scale parallel applications. His research received a Best Paper Finalist at SC’14. The team led by him has achieved 7 champion titles of student supercomputing challenges at SC, ISC, and ASC. He served or is now serving TPC members or reviewers of IEEE TPDS, IEEE TCC, SC, ICS, PPOPP, ICPP, NAS, LCPC, and HPCC. He is a co-chair of ICPP PASA workshop 2015 and a program co-chair of NPC 2018. He is a recipient of 2010 Siebel Scholar and CCF outstanding doctoral dissertation award.

Sébastien Varrette obtained his joint Ph.D. degree with great distinction in Computer Sciences between the University of Luxembourg (UL) and the University of Grenoble (INPG, France) in 2007. Afterwards, he joined Prof. Pascal Bouvry within the Parallel Computing and Optimization Group (PCOG) at the University of Luxembourg as Research Scientist, where he is leading the development of the University’s HPC platform, as well as the associated expert team of system administrators managing and supporting it. His main research interests lie in the domains of the security and performance of parallel and distributed computing platforms, such as HPC or Cloud Computing infrastructures. Dr Varrette is active as general chair, track chair or as scientific committee member for various reference conferences and technical workgroups within his area of expertise (IEEE CloudCom, CloudNet, IPDPS, Europar, Big Data Congress, Optim, PCGrid, ICPADS, HPCS, CLUS, J. Supercomputing etc.). He takes part for the management committee and represents Luxembourg within multiple EU projects, such as PRACE (acting advisor), ETP4HPC or several COST actions (for instance IC1305 NESUS: Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing). He’s also one of the national ICT standardization delegate within ISO/TC 307: Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Up to now, Dr. Varrette co-authored four books and more than nine book chapters in Computer Science. He also wrote about 80 research or popularization articles in scientific journals, or international conference proceedings.

Xavier Besseron is a permanent Research Scientist at the University of Luxembourg. He graduated in 2010 from the Grenoble University (France) with a PhD on Computer Science. His PhD work was on Fault Tolerance and Dynamic Reconfiguration for large scale distributed applications. From October 2010 to September 2011, his was a postdoc Researcher at the Ohio State University (USA) under the supervision of Prof. D.K. Panda in the Network Based Computing Lab (NOWLAB). During that time, he contributed to the MVAPICH project, a High Performance implementation of MPI for Infiniband clusters. In October 2010, he joined the University of Luxembourg, first as a Postdoc Research in the Parallel Computing & Optimisation Group (PCOG) of Prof. Pascal Bouvry. Now he's part of the Luxembourg XDEM Research Centre (LuXDEM) and works under the supervision of Prof. Bernhard Peters on the optimisation and parallelization of eXtended Discrete Element Method (XDEM). His research interests are High Performance Computing and Computational Sciences, and in particular parallelization, optimization, debugging and coupling of scientific HPC applications.

Dr. Hari Subramoni is a research scientist in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. His current research interests include high performance interconnects and protocols, parallel computer architecture, network-based computing, exascale computing, network topology aware computing, QoS, power-aware LAN-WAN communication, fault tolerance, virtualization, big data and cloud computing. He has published over 50 papers in international journals and conferences related to these research areas. He has been actively involved in various professional activities in academic journals and conferences. He is a member of IEEE. More details about Dr. Subramoni is available at http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~subramon.

Dr. Hari Subramoni is a research scientist in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. His current research interests include high performance interconnects and protocols, parallel computer architecture, network-based computing, exascale computing, network topology aware computing, QoS, power-aware LAN-WAN communication, fault tolerance, virtualization, big data and cloud computing. He has published over 50 papers in international journals and conferences related to these research areas. He has been actively involved in various professional activities in academic journals and conferences. He is a member of IEEE. More details about Dr. Subramoni is available at http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~subramon.