Stephen Wheat
Professor Of Computer Science at Oral Roberts University
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Wheat is a Professor of Computer Science and seasoned HPC leader with over three decades of experience spanning research, product innovation, and business development in both industry and academia. He has led global teams and strategic initiatives at Intel and HPE to commercialize high-performance computing solutions—driving offerings from HPC-as-a-Service to domain-specific roadmaps in life sciences, finance, and manufacturing. His R&D focus on parallel programming models and runtime systems is grounded in a PhD in Computer Science and hands-on technical roles at Sandia and Bell Labs. Based in Houston, he combines academic teaching with pragmatic industry engagement, routinely translating cutting-edge research into customer-facing systems and higher-margin business programs. Less obvious: he has repeatedly bridged long-term program strategy with tactical product design, boosting average sales price and market share through technical leadership and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of HoustonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
Github Skills (50)
manifold10
co-simulation10
cluster-computing9
openmpi9
fortran9
mpi9
rust9
wolfram-language8
petsc8
hpc8
lists7
parallel7
capability7
distributed-computing7
parallel-computing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sandialabs/qthreads
May 2014 - Aug 2021
Lightweight locality-aware user-level threading runtime.
Contributions:34 reviews, 24 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 3 months
localityrustruntimethreadingsnl-prog-models-runtimes
olivier-snl/BabelStream
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
STREAM, for lots of devices written in many programming models
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
vmswindowshyper-vstreamingmachine-learning
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