Presenter

Dr. Robert F. Lucas is an Ansys Fellow responsible for the default multifrontal linear solver used in LS-DYNA and MAPDL. Previously, he was the operational director of the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Lucas was the head of the High-Performance Computing Research Department in the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prior to joining NERSC, he was the deputy director of DARPA's Information Technology Office. From 1988 to 1998 he was a member of the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses' Center for Computing Sciences. From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of the technical staff of the Hughes Aircraft Company. Dr. Lucas received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1983, and 1988, respectively.