Dr. Graham Lopez

Graham Lopez is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he works on programming environments preparation with the application readiness teams for the DOE CORAL project. Graham has published research in the areas of computational materials science, application acceleration and benchmarking on heterogeneous systems, low-level
communication APIs, and programming models. He earned his M.S. in Computer science and Ph.D. in Physics from Wake forest University. Prior to joining ORNL, he was a research scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology where he worked on application and numerical algorithm optimizations for accelerators. Recently, his activities have included contributing code to the transport layer of the UCX communications library, serving as a co-chair for the OpenSHMEM workshop, and participating in an OpenACC hackathon.