Presenter

Kengo Nakajima is a Professor, Supercomputing Research Division, Information Technology Center, the University of Tokyo since 2008. Prior to joining the University of Tokyo in 2004, he spent 19 years in industry. His research interest covers computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), numerical linear algebra, parallel iterative algorithms, parallel preconditioning methods, multigrid methods, parallel programming models, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), and parallel visualization. He is the leading P.I. of "ppOpen-HPC" Project (Open Source Infrastructure for Development and Execution of Large-Scale Scientific Applications on Post-Peta-Scale Supercomputers with Automatic Tuning (AT)) supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) (2011-2016), and also a co-P.I. of "ESSEX-II" Project (Equipping Sparse Solvers for Exascale) under collaboration between JST-CREST (Japan) and DFG-SPPEXA (Germany) (2015-present). Education: B.Eng (1985, Aeronautics, University of Tokyo), M.S. (1993, Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin), Ph.D. (2003, Engineering Mechanics, University of Tokyo).　SC Related Activities: Member of Technical Paper Committee (TPC) (SC08-SC13 and SC15, Co-Chair of Application Area: SC10, Co-Chair of Technical Paper Committee: SC13); Member of Invited Speakers Committee (SC16); Member of IEEE Seymour Cray & Sidney Fernbach Awards Committee (2014 and 2015). Other Professional Activities: Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC) (2007-2012); General Council Member, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) (2009-present); Director, Japan Society for Computational Engineering & Science (JSCES) (2014-present).