Presenter

Erich Strohmaier is an internationally recognized expert in high performance computing with a continued focus on performance characterization, evaluation, modeling, and prediction. He has been the leading editor and analyst of the TOP500 supercomputer project since its beginning.

Strohmaier specializes in performance engineering for HPC systems and large-scale scientific workflows, analysis of advanced computer architectures and parallel programming paradigms, classification of and programming patterns for scientific computational kernels, machine learning, and deep neural networks. He was awarded the 2008 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for parallel processing research in algorithmic innovation and was named a Fellow of the ISC Conference in 2017.

Strohmaier has held positions as a Senior Scientist and Group Lead in the Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.