Presenter

Dr. Kepner leads large scale computing research across MIT's largest laboratory. Dr. Kepner is the most published author in the 60+ year history of Lincoln Laboratory. His published works span signal processing, data mining, databases, high performance computing, graph algorithms, cyber security, visualization, cloud computing, random matrix theory, abstract algebra, bioinformatics, astronomy, physics, and astrophysics. In addition he has authored two books on parallel computing and graph algorithms. He recently received Lincoln's highest honor for technical excellence. Recently, Dr. Kepner has been at the forefront of developing a new signal processing technique for genetic sequence analysis and operating on data while it is stored in encrypted form. Dr. Kepner is the Chair of the largest computing conference in New England (IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing) and Vice-Chair of SIAM Data Mining. Dr. Kepner received his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Princeton University in 1998.