John Walters
Research Director And Distinguished Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Walters is a Research Director and Distinguished Principal Scientist with over 15 years of experience advancing systems software across firmware, compilers, operating systems, supercomputing, and AI for major U.S. agencies including DARPA, IARPA, NASA and the defense/intelligence community. Based in Virginia at USC/ISI, he leads multidisciplinary teams that have delivered radiation-hardened space processors, domain-specific compilers for large-scale SAR workloads, and early software-implemented fault tolerance for NASA’s SpaceCube. He combines deep technical authorship—from simulators and emulators to heterogeneous cloud and GPU-accelerated HPC—with hands-on program leadership and successful mentoring that has directly enabled new research funding. Known for bridging academic rigor (Ph.D. in Computer Science) with operational impact, he routinely translates novel research into deployable systems for high-assurance and high-performance environments. An underappreciated strength is his track record of integrating diverse toolchains and hardware targets to deliver scalable, production-grade scientific computing solutions.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Wayne State UniversityB.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Albion College
Github Skills (30)
buster6
heterogeneous5
docker-container5
docker-image5
hardware4
openstack3
docker3
ovh2
hpc2
multicore2
handbrake2
fat2
google-home2
rtems2
kernel2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ISI-apex/casper-optimizers
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
jpnwalters/jpnwalters.github.io
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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