Presenter

John Stone is an NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer, with expertise in scientific visualization, high performance ray tracing, and GPU computing. He previously served as the lead developer of VMD, a high performance tool for preparation, analysis, and visualization of biomolecular simulations used by over 100,000 researchers all over the world. He is a frequent contributor to HPC workshops and software development hackathons for next-generation parallel computers. He was inducted as an NVIDIA CUDA Fellow in 2010. Stone and co-authors were winners of the scientific visualization and data analytics showcases at SC14 and SC19, and Stone and co-authors won the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research at SC20.