SUPERCOMPUTING ASIA 2023

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Committee Members

Dr Su Yi
(Co-chair)

Executive Director, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore

Prof Sean Smith
(Co-chair)

Director, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), The Australian National University (ANU), Australia

Prof-Tan-Tin-Wee

A/Prof Tan Tin Wee
(Immediate Past Co-Chair)

Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore

Prof Satoshi Matsuoka

Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan

Prof Satoshi Sekiguchi

Vice-President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

Mr Mark Stickells

Executive Director, Pawsey
Supercomputing Centre, Australia

Dr Terence Hung

Chief of Future Intelligence Technologies, Rolls Royce, Singapore

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Dr Goh Eng Lim

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Artificial Intelligence Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Singapore

Dr Yoshinori Kusama

General Manager, Department of HPC Support, Kobe Center, RIST, Japan

Prof William Gropp

Director and Chief Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, US

Prof Simon See

Senior Director, and Chief Solution Architect, Nvidia AI Technology Center, Singapore

Dr Jysoo Lee

Facilities Director, Research Computing Core Labs, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Dr-Manaschai-Kunaseth

Dr Manaschai Kunaseth

Team Leader, NSTDA Supercomputer Center (ThaiSC), National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand

Prof-Taisuke-Boku

Prof. Taisuke Boku

Director & Professor, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan

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AProf-Tan-Tin-Wee

A/Prof Tan Tin Wee

Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore

Associate Professor of Department of Biochemistry,
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS)

Tan Tin Wee is the founding director and current Chief Executive of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, which manages Singapore’s first national petascale facility. NSCC’s supercomputing resources support the advanced research needs of both the public and private sectors in Singapore, and are made accessible to all local institutions of higher learning, research institutes, polytechnics, government agencies and companies.

Tin Wee’s career path has often placed him at the leading edge of emerging technologies. He is recognised as a pioneer in the fields of high performance computing, bioinformatics and the Internet in Singapore. He invented and founded multilingual internationalised domain names (IDN) in 1998 and headed the Technet Unit in 1995, Singapore’s first research ISP, which was later spun-off as Pacific Internet. He has been instrumental in advancing data-intensive research by connecting research platforms in Singapore and regionally as founder and co-founder of Singapore Research Network (SingAREN) and Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN), respectively. He is also the first and only Singaporean to be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.

He helped set up the first bioinformatics resource at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1990, and founded the NUS Bioinformatics Centre in 1996 and the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) in 1998. He served on the Board of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and was awarded a Gold Medal at the World Congress for Medical Informatics in 1992. As an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, NUS, he is a pioneer in the field of molecular biology and biotechnology. He has published over 100 journal publications and trained more than 20 PhD and MSc graduates. He is currently a Senate member of the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS). He couples his domain expertise in research with a prolific entrepreneurial spirit. Apart from heading Technet, he has been instrumental in a number of commercialisation ventures and start-ups such as Bioinformatrix Pte Ltd, Knorex Pte Ltd, iGates Bioinnovation and iDNS.net International. He has served on the Board of Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation Ltd and is currently the Board Director of Keppel Data Centre REIT Management.

Tin Wee also represents Singapore’s interest at regional forums. He is a Subcommittee Focal Point of the ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology (COST) for which he received the ASEAN Science and Technology Meritorious Service Award in 2008. He is currently on the Board of Advisors to COSTI (BAC) of the ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI). He has also served on the Subcommittees on Biotechnology, and on Infrastructure and Research Development. His other accolades include the ASEAN Business Forum Achievement Award in 1998 and the Singapore Youth Award in 1994.

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Prof Satoshi Matsuoka

Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan

 

Satoshi Matsuoka from April 2018 has become the director of Riken CCS, the top-tier HPC centre that represents HPC in Japan, developing and hosting Japan’s tier-one ‘Fugaku’ supercomputer which has become the fastest supercomputer in the world in all four major supercomputer rankings in 2020, along with multitudes of ongoing cutting edge HPC research being conducted, including investigating Post-Moore era computing. He was the leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers, at Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he still holds a Professor position, to continue his research activities in HPC as well as scalable Big Data and AI. His commendations include the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011 & 2021 and the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award in 2014, both being one of the highest awards in the field of HPC, as well as being the Program Chair for ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2013 (SC13).

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Dr Terence Hung

Chief of Future Intelligence Technologies, Rolls Royce, Singapore

Terence is the Chief of Future Intelligence Technologies at Rolls-Royce and leads an R&T team in artificial intelligence. He has 27 years of technology/R&D management experiences in high performance computing, cloud and artificial intelligence. Aside from serving on technical conference committees, Terence also served on Business of Data Advisory Board, National Supercomputing Centre Steering Committee, Singapore Maritime Institute Technology Advisory Panel and Microsoft’s international Technical Computing Executive Advisory Council. Terence is also active as judge and mentor for start-up competitions and hackathons such as those organised by MIT Tech Review, Slingshot and SAS.

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Dr Goh Eng Lim

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, 
Artificial Intelligence Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Singapore

Dr Goh Eng Lim is senior vice president and chief technology officer for artificial intelligence at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to this, he was CTO for majority of his 27 years at Silicon Graphics, now part of HPE. His research interests include humanity’s differentiation as we progress from analytics to inductive machine learning, deductive reasoning, and specific to general artificial intelligence. He continues his studies in human perception for virtual and augmented reality.

As principal investigator of the experiment aboard the International Space Station to operate autonomous supercomputers on long duration space travel, Dr. Goh was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal. His other work includes co-inventing blockchain-based swarm learning applications, which was featured on the cover of Nature; overseeing deployment of AI to Formula 1 racing; industrial application of technologies behind a champion poker bot; co-designing the systems architecture for simulating a biologically detailed mammalian brain; predicting predisposition to vaccine side effects by machine learning of gene expression data; and co-inventing a data-intensive fabric for Exascale systems. Extracting value from data is a common factor of all the above. He has ten U.S. patents, with three others pending.

A Singapore Visionary Award recipient, Dr. Goh is a Scientific Advisory Board member of the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office. In 2005, InfoWorld named him one of the World’s 25 Most Influential CTOs. He was included twice in the HPCwire list of “People to Watch” and received the HPC Community Recognition Award. His work for Stephen Hawking included a symposium invitation to introduce the discoveries of Professor Saul Perlmutter, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.

A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, Dr. Goh completed his PhD research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics, and holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University in the U.K

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Prof William Gropp

Director and Chief Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, US

William Gropp is Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and holds
the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford
University in 1982 and worked at Yale University and Argonne National Laboratory. His
research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical
methods for partial differential equations. He is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM
and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and has received numerous awards
for his work in HPC.

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Dr-Manaschai-Kunaseth

Dr Manaschai Kunaseth

Research Team Leader, Chief of Operations,
NSTDA Supercomputer Center (ThaiSC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand
Dr. Manaschai Kunaseth is a Research Team Leader and Chief of Operations at NSTDA Supercomputer Center (ThaiSC), Thailand. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California, USA in 2013. His research is cross-cutting between (1) massively parallel scientific algorithms and (2) computational chemistry for computational materials design and analysis. His current position at ThaiSC as focuses on the establishment of national HPC service center. This includes HPC system procurement, leads technical team to set up HPC system, develops HPC strategic and policy roadmaps, supports the management responsibility, and orchestrates the technical training program for HPC admins and users. Dr. Kunaseth also devoted himself to the development of HPC community. He is currently served as a steering committee of Supercomputing Asia Conference (SCA), and a committee member of Thailand’s Computational Science and Engineering Association (CSEA). He also co-organized Annual Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering (ANSCSE) and served as a program chair in HPC track for ANSCSE.

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Prof-Taisuke-Boku

Prof. Taisuke Boku

Director & Professor, Center for Computational Sciences,
University of Tsukuba, Japan

He is currently the Director of Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba. He has been researching on large scale HPC systems including the processor, interconnect and system architecture, programming models, application co-designing and accelerated parallel computing. He received a PhD degree from Keio University. He plays central roles on most of HPC system development at University of Tsukuba, and also joined the architecture development group of Fugaku supercomputer as a visiting researcher of RIKEN. He is the Steering Committee Chair of HPC Asia conference series and the President of HPCI Consortium in Japan. He received ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011.

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