Presenter

Yifeng Cui is a computational scientist, the founding director of the High Performance GeoComputing Laboratory at SDSC, and an adjunct professor at San Diego State University. He is a recognized expert in the development of large-scale earthquake simulation software and helps advance high-performance computing activities in earthquake system science. He also directs the Intel Parallel Computing Center at SDSC. Dr. Cui is the recipient of NVIDIA Global Impact Award in 2015, the IDC HPC Innovation Excellence Award in 2013, the SciDAC OASCR Awards in 2009 and 2011, and an ACM Gordon Bell finalist in 2010 for parallel computing research. He’s a member of IEEE, ACM, SIAM and AGU. He received his Ph.D. in Hydrology from the University of Freiburg. Contact him at yfcui@sdsc.edu.