William D Gropp

William D. Gropp is the W. W. Grainger Chair and Professor at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds additional professorships in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Lab, School of Information Sciences, and Center for Global Studies. As Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Center for Extreme-Scale Computation, he leads initiatives in high-performance computing (HPC) and computational infrastructure. His research focuses on parallel computing, MPI, quantum-centric supercomputing, and optimizing data movement on heterogeneous architectures. Gropp has contributed to seminal tools like PETSc and MPICH, advancing scalable scientific computing.

Research Interests: High-Performance Computing, Parallel Algorithms, MPI, Quantum Computing Integration, Heterogeneous Architectures, and Scientific Software Libraries. His work addresses challenges in scalable systems, communication optimization, and exascale computing.

Recent Contributions: Recent articles explore benchmarking tools for hierarchical networks, agent-based models, and quantum-centric supercomputing applications. His work emphasizes practical solutions for real-world HPC challenges, such as optimizing GPU performance and I/O systems.

Awards & Honors:

• AAAS Fellow (2018)
• ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award (2016)
• IEEE Fellow (2010)
• NAE Member (2010)

Labs & Teams: Directs NCSA and oversees the Center for Extreme-Scale Computation. Collaborates on projects like the Delta Gateway for GPU resource access and the Quantum-centric Supercomputing initiative. Active in community-driven efforts to advance HPC standards and tools.