Presenter

James Demmel is the Dr. Richard Carl Dehmel Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley and Chair of the Computer Science Division. His research interests are in numerical linear algebra, HPC, and communication-avoiding algorithms in particular. He is known for his work on the LAPACK and ScaLAPACK linear algebra libraries. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, AMS, IEEE and SIAM, and winner of the IPDPS Charles Babbage Award, IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award, the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award, and numerous best paper prizes. He is a member of the IEEE 754 Floating Point Standards Committee, which is currently deliberating whether to add a new instruction that would accelerate reproducible floating point summation.