Dr. Oliver Fuhrer is a senior scientist in the modeling group of the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich. He has over 12 years experience in the fields of high performance computing, regional climate simulation and numerical weather prediction. He has applied and developed parallel software and conducted research starting on vector machines and later on massively parallel architectures at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. Recently, Fuhrer acted as a PI or co-PI on three projects within the Swiss High Performance and High Productivity Computing (HP2C) initiative and Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) and has had the scientific lead for developing a hardware oblivious and performance portable implementation of the dynamical core of the COSMO model. These efforts have resulted in an implementation of COSMO capable of running production simulations on hybrid architectures.

Rajeeb Hazra is vice president of the Data Center Group and general manager for the Technical Computing Group at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for driving the business of high-performance computing and workstations, successfully ramping Intel's new Many Integrated Core (MIC) product line in technical computing and other segments, and leading fabric product development. Before assuming his current position, Hazra was the director of Supercomputing Architecture, where he was responsible for strategic research and development engagements with Intel's supercomputing customers. Earlier in his Intel career, he served as the director of the Systems Technology Lab in Intel Labs (then called the Corporate Technology Lab), where he oversaw R&D in hardware and software-related systems technologies. Hazra also previously served as technical assistant to Intel's chief technology officer. He joined Intel in 1994 as a software engineer in Intel Architecture Labs, working on video compression/decompression technologies. Before coming to Intel, Hazra was with the Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company based at NASA's Langley Research Center. Hazra holds 16 patents in signal processing and has contributed numerous technical publications to refereed technical journals and conferences. He was honored with an Intel Achievement Award in 2000 for breakthroughs in multiple generations of industry-leading video-compression technologies. Hazra earned his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Jadavpur University, India. He also holds a master's degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science, both from The College of William & Mary.

Thomas Schulthess received his PhD in physics from ETH Zurich in 1994. He is a professor for computational physics at ETH Zurich and Director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center in Lugano, Switzerland. Thomas holds a visiting distinguished professor appointment at ORNL, where he was group leader and researcher in computational materials science for over a decade before moving to ETH Zurich in 2008. His current research interests are in development of efficient and scalable algorithms for the study of strongly correlated quantum systems, as well as electronic structure methods in general. He is also engaged in the development of efficient tools and simulations systems for other domain areas, such as meteorology/climate and geophysics.