Presenter

Jonathan is a Staff Research Engineer focusing on scalable big data systems, in the Memory and Systems group at Arm Inc. Jonathan also serves as a technical advisor to start-ups, and has given talks ranging from C++ parallel runtimes to debating exascale memory architectures at SC. Jonathan Beard received a BS (Biology) and BA (International Studies) in 2005 from the Louisiana State University, MS (Bioinformatics) in 2010 from The Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Jonathan served as a U.S. Army Officer from 2005 through July 2010 where he served in roles ranging from medical administrator, to Aide-de-Camp, to acting director of the medical informatics department for the U.S. Army in Europe. Jonathan's research interests also include online modeling of stream/data-flow parallel systems, streaming architectures, compute near data, and massively parallel processing.