Summary
Tim Mattson is a veteran parallel computing researcher and technical evangelist with a 25+ year track record of turning parallel programming from a niche research problem into practical tools and patterns used across HPC, scientific computing, and industry. He pioneered work on OpenMP, helped ship cluster tooling like OSCAR, led programming-systems research at Intel, and now combines fellowship and evangelism at Merly while seeding a citizen-science initiative focused on human learning. His expertise spans exaFLOP-class runtimes to mobile parallelism, linear algebra, molecular modeling, and an early, skeptical-but-practical embrace of “Big Data” as engineering challenge. Tim is notable for codifying design patterns for parallel applications and for translating deep theoretical chemistry and quantum-scattering training into high-impact software solutions. Based in Ocean Park, WA, he continues active research in graph algorithms and databases and mentors practitioners through OpenMP and MPI pedagogy.
12 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Chemistry, B.S. Chemistry at University of California, Riverside
University of California Santa Cruz