Podcast: From Here to Ai with Jack Wells from Oak Ridge

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Jack Wells from ORNL

In this Conversations with Dez podcast, Dez Blanchfield sits down with Jack Wells from ORNL to talk about about his personal & professional life journey, his role at Oak Ridge National Lab, how Artificial Intelligence is being deployed & leveraged in HPC, and the role IBM’s POWER9 solution is playing in supporting Oak Ridge and its mission.

Jack Wells is the Director of Science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science national user facility, and the Summit supercomputer, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Wells is responsible for the scientific outcomes of the OLCF’s user programs. Wells has previously lead both ORNL’s Computational Materials Sciences group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division and the Nanomaterials Theory Institute in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. Prior to joining ORNL as a Wigner Fellow in 1997, Wells was a postdoctoral fellow within the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Wells has a Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University, and has authored or co-authored over 80 scientific papers and edited 1 book, spanning nanoscience, materials science and engineering, nuclear and atomic physics computational science, applied mathematics, and text-based data analytics.

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