CUG President

Dr. Rajeeb Hazra is a corporate vice president and general manager for the Enterprise and Government Group at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for leading Intel’s Enterprise IT and Technical Computing segments in the data center. 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.

Arno was born in The Netherlands and grew up in Canada where he received a degree in Computer Science from The University Of Calgary. Currently residing in San Francisco, his main career focus over the past 30 years has been database architecture, database administration and operations architecture for industries that include oil and gas, emergency services, finance and until recently, 14 years at PayPal. His extensive knowledge of relational databases has expanded to include new database technologies such as NoSQL and graph databases. An interest in HPC and technical computing came about as a result of finding solutions to solving real time data analytics across distributed systems at web scale. Arno and his colleague, Ryan Quick, have received IDC Innovation Excellence Awards at both Super-Computing 2012 and 2104 as well as numerous HPC Wire Reader’s Choice Awards. He’s been invited to speak domestically and internationally on HPC and its deployment at PayPal. He is co-founder of independent consulting firm Providentia Worldwide.

Douglas B. Kothe (Doug) has over three decades of experience in conducting and leading applied R&D in computational applications designed to simulate complexphysical phenomena in the energy, defense, and manufacturing sectors. Doug is currently the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Prior positions for Doug at ORNL, where he has been since 2006, were Director of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, DOE’s first Energy Innovation Hub (2010-2015), and Director of Science at the National Center for Computational Sciences (2006-2010). Before coming to ORNL, Doug spent 20 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he held a number of technical and line and program management positions, with a common theme being the development and application of modeling and simulation technologies targeting multi-physics phenomena characterized in part by the presence of compressible or incompressible interfacial fluid flow. Doug also spent one year at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the late 1980s as a physicist in defense sciences. Doug holds a Bachelor in Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri – Columbia (1983) and a Masters in Science (1986) and Doctor of Philosophy (1987) in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue University.