2018 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conference

Chief Strategist for HPC

Michael Ignatowski is a Senior Fellow at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Austin Texas where he leads AMD's research efforts on advanced memory systems. His current research work focuses on processing-in-memory, exploiting emerging NVRAM technologies, and reconfigurable computing... Read More →

Steve Pawlowski is advanced computing solutions vice president at Micron Technology. He is responsible for defining and developing innovative memory solutions for the enterprise and high-performance computing markets.Prior to joining Micron in July 2014, Mr. Pawlowski was a senior... Read More →

Thor Sewell is the Director of Workload Product Marketing in Intel’s Data Center Group.  He has responsibilities for the Intel Xeon platform strategy in Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing.  Prior to this role Thor was the Director of Xeon Phi Marketing and... Read More →

Andrew Siegel is a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, with appointments in both the Mathematics/Computer Science and Nuclear Engineering divisions. For the past decade, he has led Argonne’s program in advanced reactor modeling and simulation. His research has focused... Read More →