Workshop Program

Carole-Jean Wu is a Research Director at Meta AI. She is a founding member and a Vice President of MLCommons – a non-profit organization that aims to accelerate machine learning for the benefits of all. Dr. Wu also serves on the MLCommons Board as a Director, chaired the MLPerf Recommendation Benchmark Advisory Board, and co-chaired for MLPerf Inference. Prior to Meta/Facebook, She was an Associate Professor at ASU.

Dr. Wu is passionate about pathfinding and tackling system challenges to enable efficient, responsible AI execution. Her expertise sits at the intersection of computer architecture and machine learning. Her work includes Understanding Computing's Carbon Footprint,  Designing Low-Carbon Computers at Tech @ Meta,  and to minimize computing’s carbon footprint, the first step is to quantify lifecycle emissions featured at the HiPEAC Blog. Dr. Wu's work has been recognized with several awards, including IEEE Micro Top Picks and ACM/IEEE Best Paper Awards. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton and B.Sc. from Cornell.

Genna Waldvogel is an Operations Manager within the Utilities and Infrastructure Division at LANL. She works with a team of six to implement EO/DOE regulations, including the site sustainability plan, zero-emissions planning, energy/water efficiency and project planning for the division and in collaboration with other programs, like High Performance Computing. She has a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont and a MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Otto Van Geet is a Principal Engineer at NREL. Van Geet has been involved in the design, construction, and operation of energy-efficient research facilities such as laboratories and data centers, office and general use facilities, and low-energy-use campus and community design. Van Geet was one of the founding members of the Labs21 (Smart Labs) program and provides technical guidance for the program. His experience also includes renewables screening and assessment, PV system design for on- and off-grid applications, energy audits, and minimizing energy use. Van Geet has authored many technical reports and conference papers and been recognized with many awards from professional associations, including the 2007 Presidential Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management and the 2011 GreenGov Green Innovation Presidential Award for the NREL Research Support Facility data center.

He lives with his family in a zero electrical energy off-grid passive solar house with a 2 kW PV/hybrid power system and solar water heating that he designed and built 25 years ago.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, A.A.S., State University of New York at Canton, Registered Professional Engineer (PE), Certified Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP), Certified Energy Manager (CEM), LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP), Project Management Professional (PMP)

John Elliott is Chief Sustainability Officer, responsible for directing and implementing the Lab’s sustainability strategy. He has broad and detailed experience in building efficiency, building energy management, renewables, water efficiency, electric vehicles, employee engagement, waste diversion, and toxics reduction. He was previously Director, Energy and Sustainability at UC Merced, and has done prior work in energy efficiency program design, strategy consulting to utilities, leading a professional services software implementation practice active in the energy industry, consulting on efficiency and renewables to native American tribes, as well as doing groundwater modeling and work with soil and groundwater remediation systems. John draws on the local academic communities of Stanford and the Energy and Resources Group at University of California Berkeley, where he received undergraduate and masters degrees. 

Jesse Freedman is LANL’s Net-Zero Emissions Analyst and works on a variety of initiatives to help the Lab get to net zero by 2050, from electrifying buildings and vehicles to helping the Lab deploy more renewable energy. He has worked in a number of roles in energy management and renewable energy for local government, higher education, and the private sector. Jesse has a Master of Public Affairs in Sustainable Development and is a Certified Energy Manager. When not reducing emissions at work (or home!), he can be found watching Tar Heels basketball or honing his pizza-making skills

Thomas Ilsche (Ph.D.) received his doctorate in computer science from TU Dresden in 2020. He is working as a research scientist at the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing at TU Dresden. His research interests include energy measurement, measurement data processing infrastructures, and performance analysis and optimization for High Performance Computing.

Ivana Bartol is a Research Associate at the Technical University of Dresden. She works on a project IT-Zauber that focuses on operational optimization of energy-efficient data centers through the use of digital twins.  She has a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Process and Power Engineering and a few years of experience working in the field.

Suzy Belmont is the Energy and Sustainability Manger in the Intelligent Campus group out of Site Operations at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). She has a BA in Mathematics and Anthropology from Hamilton College and a MS in Civil Engineering with a focus in Civil Systems from CU Boulder. Suzy has been with NREL for over nine years and in her current role, she leads the Smart Labs Program and manages and analyzes energy, water, fuels, and other laboratory consumption to develop improved processes of operations. She also works on climate resilience planning and manages NREL sustainability reporting requirements. Her Intelligent Campus group incorporates research from the laboratory itself to ensure operations are on the cutting edge of efficiency, safety, resiliency and sustainability.

David Martinez is an Engineering Program/Project Lead and has worked in the Sandia National Laboratories Corporate Computing Facilities (CCF) for 35+ years. David is the subject matter expert for SNL’s data center operations and design due to his in-depth understanding and experience with HVAC, controls, and mechanical and electrical systems. David is frequently consulted by internal and external agencies for design review and his innovative approach to data center management and energy efficient operations and designs. SNL has received numerous energy efficiency awards as a result of these efforts. During his tenure, David has seen the data center operations move from about 20,000 sq. ft. to over 77,000 sq. ft. comprised of 3 unique data center environments.

Tiziano Belotti is the Associate Director for Facility Management at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS).  He is responsible for supporting the management in the centre's development strategy and in managing the maintenance, renovation, and extension of the CSCS installations and buildings.  He collaborates closely with the Chief Operations Officer on business continuity, risk management and energy procurement and represents CSCS in the cooperation with the buildings department of ETH Zurich for the planning and execution of new projects, renovations related to technical and building installations and budgeting of costs related to these.  A further strategic part of his job is to define the CSCS facility requirements for IT procurement projects.  Tiziano holds several Swiss Federal Diplomas in mechanical systems and electrical engineering.  

As Facilities Manager for the NAS Division, Chris Tanner oversees modifications to support the supercomputers and subsystems at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility. In this role, he manages the design, development, construction, and operation of leading technology facilities that provide cost-effective operation of high-performance computer (HPC) systems.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Santa Clara University.

Thomas Eickermann is working at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) since he finished his PhD in Physics at the University of Düsseldorf in 1994. His activities cover system administration, Grid computing, and networking. Since 2002, he is head of the communication systems and service division of JSC. Between 2008 and 2015, Thomas Eickermann has been project manager of PRACE preparatory and implementation phase projects and served on the PRACE aisbl Board of Directors.  Currently, he is a deputy director of JSC and engaged in the preparations for JUPITER, the EuroHPC Exascale computer in Jülich.

Professor Volker Lindenstruth studied physics at the TU Darmstadt and received his diploma in 1989. From 1989 to 1993 he obtained his doctorate at the GSI in Darmstadt in physics and then went on to work as a postdoc for computer science for two years as Feodor v. Lynen Fellow at LBNL, USA. From 1995 to 1997, he was a member of the Scientific Staff of the UC Space Science Laboratory, USA, before founding iCore Technologies in 1997. Back in Germany since 1998 Professor Lindenstruth was leading the Department of Technical Computer Science until 2009 and accompanying the position of Director for the Kirchhoff Institute of the University of Heidelberg. In addition, since 2000 he has been the head of the ALICE HLT project (BMBF / CERN MoU) at the LHC of CERN and from 2006 to 2007 also CERN Associate. In 2005, he founded Certon Systems in Heidelberg. At FIAS he held the position of Fellow since 2007 and became a Senior Fellow soon. Furthermore, the group of High-Performance Computer Architecture of the Goethe University has been in his care since 2009. Since 2010, Professor Lindenstruth has also been involved in the board of directors of FIAS, which he is chairing since 2012. He is also in charge of the scientific IT department at GSI Helmholtzzentrum since 2010 and founded the e3c Computing GmbH in 2011.