Presenter

Jon is a fifth year computer science PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign co-advised by Professors Luke Olson and Marc Snir. His research interests include fault tolerance issues related to HPC systems. In particular, he is interested in silent data corruption and its impacts on HPC applications, fault injection and analysis tools, and lossy compression for checkpoint restart. Jon has interned with Lawrence Livermore and Argonne National Laboratory, was selected as a Blue Waters Graduate Fellow in April 2014, was one of four students invited to present at the Salishan Conference for High-speed Computing in April 2015, and received best poster at CLUSTER 2015. At Illinois, Jon has been ranked multiple times among the university’s top teaching assistants, is a member of several departmental committees, volunteers to mentor undergraduates engaging in research, and trains new teaching assistants in the computer science department.