Bio
Wesley Brewer is a Senior Research Scientist in the Analytics & AI Methods at Scale (AAIMS) group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). Before joining ORNL, he was a Computational Scientist for the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) and spent a decade teaching computer science and conducting research in Korea. He first worked for several years at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, followed by several years conducting research at Mississippi State University funded by the Office of Naval Research. His background is in computational fluid dynamics, with extensive experience in machine learning for scientific workflows at scale on HPC. He has also worked in numerical weather simulation, computational genetics, NLP, cloud computing, and scientific workflows. His current interests include AI for Science and Digital Twins for HPC.
Awards
Outstanding paper award, 91°µÍø High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC), 2020
DoD HPCMP Hero award for Technical Excellence, 2019
Best paper award, Technology Review Journal, 2004
Education
Ph.D. in Computational Engineering, Mississippi State University (MSU), 2002
M.S. in Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1995
B.S. in Engineering Science & Mechanics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), 1993
Professional Affiliations
Member, ACM SIGHPC