Matt Norman
Group Leader, Advanced Computing For Life Sciences And Engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Norman is a computational scientist and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable algorithms and performance-portable C++ libraries for high-performance computing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As Group Leader for Advanced Computing for Life Sciences and Engineering, he blends deep expertise in CFD, MPI/OpenMP/OpenACC parallelism, and legacy Fortran with modern machine learning augmentation to accelerate modeling and simulation. His background spans PhD-level atmospheric science and computer science, enabling him to translate numerical methods for multi‑100k-processor systems into production-ready solvers and tools. Known for publishing novel conservative remapping and Godunov-type schemes early in his career, he combines research rigor with pragmatic software engineering to tackle climate and life‑science applications. Based in Knoxville, he jokes about “saving the world, one keystroke at a time,” but delivers measurable scalability and performance improvements on leadership-class supercomputers.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Ph.D., Atmospheric Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (35)
porting10
parallel10
planetary10
fortran10
mpi10
cluster-computing10
hpc10
earth10
openmp10
snl-applications10
hpc-applications10
parallel-computing10
exascale10
earth-science10
computational-fluid-dynamics10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ORNL/portUrb
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
portUrb is a simple, fast, extensible portable C++ atmospheric LES model
Contributions:8 PRs, 176 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 4 months
cpp
mrnorman/mrnorman.github.io
Aug 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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