Presenter

Prof. Rick Stevens is Argonne's Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences and a professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Chicago. He is internationally known for work in HPC, collaboration and visualization technology, and for building computational tools and web infrastructures to support large-scale genome and metagenome analysis. Stevens is the principle investigator of three large-scale projects: the PATRIC Bioinformatics Resource Center which is developing comparative analysis tools for infectious disease research; the Exascale Deep Learning and Simulation Enabled Precision Medicine for Cancer project through the Exascale Computing Project, focusing on building a scalable deep neural network code to address three top challenges of the NCI; and pilot-1 of the DOE-NCI Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer project, which focuses on pre-clinical screening aimed at building machine learning models for cancer drug response to improve the range of therapies available to patients.