Presenter

Christian Trott is a high performance computing expert with exceptional experience in designing and implementing scientific software for GPU and ManyCore architectures. He is leading the Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming Model development team at the Sandia National Laboratories.

He also contributes to a number of scientific computing projects, including parallel linear algebra packages in Trilinos, the Molecular Dynamics code LAMMPS and the proxy application suite Mantevo, in addition to conducting parallel programming training events for application teams using Kokkos.

His prior scientific work focused on computational material research using ab-initio calculations, molecular dynamic simulations and monte carlo methods for investigations of ion-conducting glass materials.