Jeffrey Hittinger is a computational scientist in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Hittinger earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan, with his dissertation work on extensions to the Godunov method for hyperbolic systems with relaxation source terms. Dr. Hittinger also earned master's degrees in Applied Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering from the Univeristy of Michigan and a batchelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University. His current research interests include numerical methods for hyperbolic systems, computational plasma physics, continuum kinetic models, and parallel computing.