Organization

Rangan Sukumar is a Senior Fellow/Director (AI for Science  and  Innovation) at Advanced Micro  Devices  (AMD). Most recently, he served as Senior Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, where he led the company’s AI strategy spanning hardware and software innovation, go-to-market execution, venture investments, and acquisitions. As a system architect, he authored multiple winning federal, research, and industry programs ande delivered on a multi-billion-dollar pipeline.  Prior to that, he led AI software delivery on Exascale systems at Cray, and played a central role in advancing AI-for-Science initiatives across federal agencies. Earlier in his career, Rangan held technical and leadership roles at and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he helped shape analytics and AI roadmaps for the Exascale era, led innovation incubation programs, managed large-scale data science platforms, and worked directly with scientific teams across DOE leadership facilities. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence and over 100 publications in implementing edge-to-exascale AI pipelines. 

Jack Wells is the Director for Higher Education and Research Computing at NVIDIA, where he engages thought leaders across the scientific computing ecosystem, focusing on aligning the NVIDIA computing platform with stakeholder goals and mission. Jack joined NVIDIA in 2021 following 23 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he was part of the team that delivered three world-leading supercomputers, serving as Director of Science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a Department of Energy, Office of Science national user facility. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers and edited two books. His research interests span nanoscience, materials science and engineering, nuclear and atomic physics, computational science, applied mathematics, and data analytics. Jack has a PhD in Physics from Vanderbilt University. He is serving as President of OpenACC, a consortium dedicated to the research community’s advancement by expanding accelerated and parallel computing capabilities.

Mike is a HPE Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Technologist in the HPC and AI Solutions Organization at HPE. Mike is responsible for driving the long-term product road map and architecture, tracking market trends and differentiation, evaluating new technologies and business partnerships, and representing HPE’s perspective externally for the HPC/MCS BU. He leads a team which covers HPC System Architecture, High Performance Interconnects, High Performance Data/Storage Technology, AI Technology, High Performance Programming, Memory-Driven Computing, and Security. This work involves collaboration across many other teams at HPE including Hewlett Packard Labs, HPE-IT, and HPE Services. Mike has a B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering, from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Mike has multiple U.S. patents in the field of computer system architecture.