ISC 2019 Chairs

The members of the ISC Steering Committee are distinguished HPC experts and decision makers who provide guidance on the conference program and help enhance publicity, acceptance and growth of ISC in industry, research and academia.

• Sadaf Alam, CSCS, Switzerland
• David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Rosa Badia, BSC, Spain 
• Frank Baetke, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Germany
• Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA 
• Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
• Arndt Bode, LRZ & TU Munich, Germany
• Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Damian Borth, DFKI, Germany 
• Gerd Büttner, Airbus Deutschland, Germany
• Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
• Florina Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland
• Toni Collis, EPCC, UK
• Dona Crawford, LLNL, USA 
• Bronis R. de Supinski, LLNL, USA
• Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & ORNL, USA
• Ryusuke Egawa, Tohoku University, Japan
• Lin Gan, Tsinghua University, China
• Alfred Geiger, T-Systems Solutions for Research, Germany 
• Wolfgang Gentzsch, The UberCloud Marketplace, Germany
• Horst Gietl, ISC Group, Germany
• Bill Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 
• Georg Hager, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 
• Heike Jagode, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, USA
• Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland
• Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
• Alison Kennedy, STFC Hartree Centre, UK 
• Janis Keuper, ITWM, Germany 
• David Keyes, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ, Germany
• Julian Kunkel, University of Reading, UK
• Jysoo Lee, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
• Thomas Lippert, JSC, Germany
• Yutong Lu, NSCC in Guangzhou, China (Chair)
• Thomas Ludwig, DKRZ, Germany
• Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 
• Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK
• Cynthia McIntyre, Washington Technology Partners, USA
• Kim McMahon, Cloud Foundry Foundation, USA
• Martin Meuer, ISC Group, Germany
• Thomas Meuer, ISC Group, Germany
• Marek Michalewicz, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland 
• Bernd Mohr, JSC, Germany
• Matthias Müller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 
• Wolfgang Nagel, TU Dresden, Germany
• Kengo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Philipp Neumann, DKRZ, Germany
• Michael Resch, HLRS, Germany
• Saday Sadayappan, Ohio State University, USA
• Marie-Christine Sawley, Intel, France 
• Martin Schulz, TU Munich, Germany
• Felix Schürmann, EPFL, Switzerland
• John Shalf, LBNL/NERSC, USA 
• Horst Simon, LBNL, USA
• Happy Sithole, Center for High Performance Computing, South Africa
• Masha Sosonkina, Old Dominion University, USA
• Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
• Erich Strohmaier, LBNL, USA
• Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA 
• Carsten Trinitis, TU Munich, Germany
• Ekaterina Tutlyaeva, RSC, Russia
• Matteo Valero, BSC, Spain
• Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 
• Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia
• Michele Weiland, EPCC, UK
• Gerhard Wellein, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 
• Sandra Wienke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Andreas Wierse, SICOS BW, Germany
• Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 

The Research Papers Committee sets up the research paper sessions, based on a call-for-papers procedure. 

• Carsten Trinitis, TU Munich, Germany (Research Papers Chair)
• Saday Sadayappan, Ohio State University, USA (Research Papers Deputy Chair)

Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure

• Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA (Track Chair for Architectures & Networks)
• to be announced soon

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University, USA (Track Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
• to be announced soon

Data, Storage & Visualization

• Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA (Track Chair for Data, Storage & Visualization)
• André Brinkmann, University of Mainz, Germany
• Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, UPC, Spain
• Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Japan
• Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
• Suzanne McIntosh, New York University, USA
• Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Japan
• Tom Vierjahn, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

HPC Algorithms

• Didem Unat, Koç Universitesi, Turkey (Track Chair for HPC Algorithms)
• Mehmet E Belviranlı, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Xing Cai, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
• Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, USA
• Xiaohu Guo, STFC, UK
• Kamer Kaya, Sabancı University, Turkey
• Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• Philipp Neumann, German Climate Computing Center, University Hamburg, Germany
• Tan Nguyen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• Lena Oden, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
• Catherine Olschanowsky, Boise State University, USA
• Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

HPC Applications

• Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Track Chair for HPC Applications)
• to be announced soon

Performance Modeling & Measurement 

• Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, (Track Chair for Performance Modeling & Measurement)
• Alexandru Calotoiu, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
• Jan Eitzinger, Erlangen Regional Computing Center, Germany
• Marc-André Hermanns, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
• Daniel Holmes, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK
• Arnaud Legrand, LIG - Bâtiment IMAG, France
• Fabrizio Petrini, Intel Corporation, Parallel Computing Labs, USA
• Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre / TU Munich, Germny

Programming Models & Systems Software 

• Brad Chamberlain, Cray, USA (Track Chair for Programming Models & Systems Software)
• to be announced soon

Emerging Technologies

• Damian Steiger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Track Chair for Emerging Technologies)
• to be announced soon

• Florina Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland (Chair)
• Martin Schulz, TU Munich, Germany (Deputy Chair)
• to be announced soon

From all research posters submitted, the Research Posters Committee selects the ones for presentation at ISC. 

• Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA (Research Posters Chair)
• Ryusuke Egawa, Tohoku University, Japan (Research Posters Deputy Chair)
• to be announced soon

From all project posters submitted, the Project Posters Committee selects the ones for presentation at ISC.

• Ekaterina Tutlyaeva, RSC, Russia (Chair)
• Dr. Philipp Neumann, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ)/Universität Hamburg, Germany (Deputy Chair)
• Alvaro Aguilera, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Samar Aseeri, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• Valeria Bartsch, Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany
• Peter Dueben, ECMWF, UK
• Anja Gerbes, Center for Scientific Computing, Germany
• Weicheng Huang, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
• Nabeeh Jumah, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Martin Lanser, Universität zu Köln, Germany
• Glenn K. Lockwood, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of America
• George S. Markomanolis, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• Ying Qian, East China Normal University, China
• Yuichi Tsujita, RIKEN AICS, Japan
• Benjamin Uekermann, TUM, Germany
• Tianqi Xu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, AIST, Japan
• Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

• Sandra Wienke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Chair)
• Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories, USA (Deputy Chair)
• Damian Alvarez, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
• Katie Antypas, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
• Ritu Arora, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA
• Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
• Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Alejandro Duran, Intel, Spain
• Robert Henschel, Indiana University, USA
• David Lecomber, Allinea Software, UK
• Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK
• CJ Newburn, NVIDIA, USA
• Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA
• Tapasya Patki, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Olga Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Christian Plessl, Paderborn University, Germany
• Mohan Sarovar, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
• William Barton Sawyer, CSCS, Switzerland
• Paul Springer, NVIDIA, Germany
• Michael Wong, Codeplay Software, UK

• Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS), Switzerland (Chair)
• Heike Jagode, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA (Deputy Chair)
• Hartwig Anzt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Bruce D’Amora, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
• Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
• Giuseppe Fiameni, CINECA, Italy
• Joachim Hein, Lund University, Sweden
• Andreas Knuepfer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• John Linford, Arm, USA
• Hatem Ltaief, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
• Shirley Moore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Akihiro Nomura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Melissa Smith, Clemson University, USA
• Jonathan Sparks, Cray Inc., USA
• Ugo Varetto, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia
• Edward Walker, National Science Foundation, USA

The BoFs Committee reviews all BoF proposals submitted and selects the sessions to be presented at ISC. 

• Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK (chair)
• Prof. Masha Sosonkina, Old Dominion University, USA (deputy chair)
• to be announced soon