Pete Bradley is the Principal Fellow in Digital Tools and Data Science at RTX Pratt & Whitney.  He coordinates technical leadership for a portfolio that includes High Performance Computing (HPC), AI and Analytics, xLM, Cloud Computing, and DevSecOps.  For over 30 years, Pete has driven innovation in computing and modeling applications for aerospace design and manufacturing.  He led development of Pratt & Whitney’s HPC operation from its pioneering computational fluid dynamics on a grid of thousands of desktop workstations to the current state of the art, enabling breakthroughs fuel efficiency and performance. He also contributed to defining the MPI standard for parallel scientific software, and has led significant projects in supercomputing and combustion modeling including a Department of Energy INCITE Award. An advocate for STEM education, Bradley has hosted career events for high school and college students and been a visiting lecturer in Computer Science at Trinity College. He is a recognized speaker who brings practical insights to technical discussions.

As chief of the NAS Division, Donovan Mathias oversees the full range of high-performance computing services for NASA’s primary supercomputing center. He also manages NAS’s modeling and simulation research and development efforts, which are critical for numerous agency missions. Mathias’ key responsibilities are setting high-level objectives for the division, creating and maintaining a productive, high-impact computational facility, and coordinating technical strategy with both Ames and NASA Headquarters management. This work encompasses managing about 200 research and development (R&D) scientists, engineers, and support staff comprised of civil servants and contractors.

Since joining NASA in 1993, Mathias has developed risk assessment tools that incorporate physics-based analyses for numerous NASA aircraft and spacecraft architecture studies and asteroid risk assessments. Previously, he was deputy chief of the NAS Division, and led the Asteroid Threat Assessment Project (ATAP) and the Engineering Risk Assessment team at NASA Ames. He also served as the crew safety and reliability manager for the Ares I crew launch vehicle. He also served as principle investigator for the Simulation Assisted Risk Assessment (SARA) project.

For his work to advance the state-of-the-art risk assessment methods, Mathias has received numerous NASA honors, including two NASA Exceptional Leadership Medals, a Space Flight Awareness Award, the Silver Snoopy, and group achievement awards. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and holds a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University.

David Martin is Manager, Industry Partnerships and Outreach at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, where he works with industrial users to harness high performance computing and take advantage of the transformational capabilities of modeling and simulation. David brings broad industry and research experience to ALCF. Prior to joining ALCF, David led IBM’s integration of internet standards, grid and cloud computing into offerings from IBM’s Systems and Technology Group. Before IBM, David managed networks and built network services for the worldwide high-energy physics community at Fermilab. David began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, doing paradigm-changing work in software engineering and high-speed networking. David has a BS from Purdue and an MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, both in Computer Science.

Suzy Tichenor has over 20 years of experience creating partnerships and programs at all levels of the government, private sector and not-for-profit organizations. She is the Director of the HPC Industrial Partnerships Program in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. This program provides companies access to the Laboratory’s leadership-class HPC systems and modeling and simulation expertise in order to address complex, competitively important problems that exceed a firm’s internal capabilities. She is also co-Executive Director of the Exascale Computing Roundtable and previously was co-Executive Director of the Department of Energy (DOE) Exascale Computing Project Industry and Agency Council.

Prior to Oak Ridge, she was Vice President of the Council on Competitiveness and directed its High-Performance Computing Initiative. With support from the DOE’s Office of Science and NNSA, NSF, and DARPA, this initiative explored how high-performance computing is a driver for economic productivity, and opportunities for public-private partnerships to expand HPC use across industry.