Dr. Karl W. Schulz

Karl W. Schulz received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas in 1999. After completing a one-year post-doc, he transitioned to the commercial software industry working for the CD-Adapco group as a Senior Project Engineer in the field of computational fluid dynamics. After several years in industry, Karl returned to the University of Texas in 2003, joining the research staff at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). During his time at TACC, Karl engaged in HPC research, scientific curriculum development, technology evaluation, and strategic initiatives serving on the Center's leadership team as an Associate Director and leading TACC's HPC group and Scientific Applications group during his tenure. Karl joined the Technical Computing Group at Intel in January 2014 and is engaged in the architecture, development, and validation of HPC system software. He is also serving as the initial technical Project Leader for the OpenHPC community project.