Pavlos Vranas Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Pavlos Vranas, Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA 94550 (vranas1@llnl.gov). Dr. Vranas is a staff physicist at LLNL. Dr. Vranas received his B.S. degree in physics from the University of Athens Greece in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree in theoretical elementary particle physics from the University of California at Davis in 1990. He continued his research in theoretical physics as a postdoctoral researcher at the Supercomputing Computations Research Institute, at Columbia University, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2000 to 2007 Dr. Vranas worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member with the core hardware architecture, design and development team of the BlueGene series of supercomputers while continuing his research in theoretical physics. Dr. Vranas performed the first numerical simulations using Domain Wall Fermions and has played a key role in their application to Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and related theories. He received the Gordon Bell prize in 1998 for his work on the Columbia University QCDSP supercomputer. In 2006 he received the 2006 Gordon Bell special achievement award for simulations of QCD on the BlueGene/L system and in 2007 he received the IBM outstanding invention achievement award. Dr. Vranas is the author of more than 70 papers in theoretical physics and supercomputing as well as of 18 patents.