Presenter

Bethel, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his team conduct basic
and applied research and development on techniques and tools for enabling scientific knowledge
discovery in some of the world's largest collections of scientific data generated by computational
models, simulations, and experiments. This work lies at the nexus of data management, data
analysis, scientific visualization, and high performance computing. Since taking over as Group
Leader in 2001, he has grown the program from two persons with an annual budget of about
$500K to a vibrant program that has earned an internationally acclaimed reputation for excellence,
and that consists of about 12 staff and an annual budget of over $4M. He conceived and was the
Coordinating Principal Investigator for the SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling
Technology (VACET), which made production-quality, petascale-capable visualization a reality at
DOE supercomputing facilities, and has produced software tools in use by a worldwide scientific
community in disciplines ranging from high energy physics to climate modeling. His research
interests include software architecture, high performance computing, scientific and information
visualization, and computer graphics. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and a Senior Fellow
at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (UC Berkeley).