Brandon Cook
Group Lead at Berkeley Lab
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Cook is a Group Lead at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s NERSC division, directing the HPC Programming Environments and Models team to advance programming models, toolchains, and runtimes for next-generation scientific computing. With a Ph.D. in Physics and over a decade of experience across Berkeley Lab, Oak Ridge, and academia, he blends deep computational science expertise with hands-on systems and performance engineering. He has led large-scale performance efforts on machines with hundreds of thousands of cores and thousands of GPUs, and previously served as Vice President of the Cray User Group, bridging vendor, community, and standards efforts. Brandon’s work sits at the intersection of applied math, parallel algorithms, and software delivery, and he is known for translating theoretical analysis into scalable production software for demanding HPC workloads.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at Vanderbilt UniversityBachelor's degree Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Physics at University of Lynchburg
Github Skills (117)
benchmark10
python10
windows10
performance-testing10
regression10
regression-testing10
scientific-computing10
portable10
markdown10
linux10
hash10
continuous-integration10
static-site-generator10
benchmarking10
macos10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SJTU-HPC/docs.hpc.sjtu.edu.cn
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
SJTU HPC 用户文档站点
Contributions:530 commits, 1 PR in 4 years
sjtuhpc
brandongc/lfdft
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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