As manager of the group, Ian’s focus is helping his team develop best practices as they help researchers build, develop, debug, and optimize serial/parallel scientific codes.  Ian teaches numerous mini-courses on HPC including “Introduction to Parallel Computing” and “Performance Tuning for Beginners.”

Background:  Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Syracuse University and Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.

In his research career, Ian developed the first highly-parallel hybrid atomistic-continuum model for liquid-vapor phase change. Previously he has held roles as a Performance Tuning Analyst and Research Computing Software & Programming Analyst.