Kent Milfeld
Research Associate
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Milfeld is a veteran HPC researcher and engineer with three decades at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, where he led the Performance and Architecture group and now serves as a half-time Research Associate. He designs and supports optimization, affinity, and interactive tooling for large-scale systems (amask, mkmod, idev) and contributes to practical HPC operations and user education. A member of the OpenMP Language Committee and co-chair of its Examples subcommittee, he bridges standards work with hands-on system tuning and teaching. Kent has taught Parallel and Scientific Computing at the University of Texas and coordinated national allocations during his TeraGrid tenure, demonstrating both technical depth and community stewardship. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from UT Austin, bringing a strong scientific perspective to performance engineering. Known for pragmatic, lightweight open-source utilities, he combines institutional memory of HPC systems with ongoing, approachable tool development.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Physics at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (29)
simulation10
lammps10
affinity9
monitoring7
latex7
heterogeneous6
sequential6
launcher5
parallel4
threaded4
shell4
batch4
batch-processing3
openmp3
reaction3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TACC/amask
May 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 38 pushes in 3 years
milfeld/class
Apr 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 years 3 months
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