Organization

Rangan Sukumar is a data science and artificial intelligence system architect. He is a Distinguished Technologist in the Chief Technology Office at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to serving on a similar role at Cray, he was a scientist and a Group Leader responsible for knowledge discovery/data science workflows on the world’s fastest supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence and over 100 publications in implementing edge-to-exascale pipelines for disparate data collection, organization, processing, integration, fusion, analysis and inference for artificial intelligence workflows. 

Arti Garg is Deputy, Global CTO for Data and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. As part of her role, she oversees HPE’s advanced AI technology and innovation programs. Over her career, she has held several data science leadership roles in the computing and industrial sectors, including at Datapipe, NRG, and GE. In the past, Dr. Garg has also worked in the U.S. government at the White House Budget Office where she oversaw R&D investments at the Department of Energy and as a legislative adviser in the U.S. Congress. She holds a PhD in Physics from Harvard University and an MS in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering from Stanford University.

Jack Wells is Scientific Program Manager 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.