Current Staff

Summer School Leads

Andrés Yagüe López

CAI-1 Applied Computer Science Andrés is a staff scientist in CAI-1 with a background in numerical methods, solar physics and nuclear astrophysics. He has worked in magnetohydrodinamics, nucleosynthesis and galactic chemical evolution simulations, including stiff nuclear networks, developing novel numerical methods for the latter. He is interested in developing simulations that can take full advantage of HPC systems capabilities.

2026 Summer School Mentors

Andrew Reisner

CAI-1 Applied Computer Science Andrew is a computer scientist with a background in high performance computing and numerical analysis. He has experience in improving the performance and scalability of structured multilevel solvers. His interests include parallel numerical algorithms on emerging architectures and scalable linear solvers.
Andrew is an alumnus of the 2014 summer school class.

Brendan Krueger

CAI-1 Applied Computer Science Brendan is a computational scientist with experience in high performance computing and physical simulations.  He has worked on many projects at LANL, including the Eulerian Applications Project, the Singe thermonuclear reactions library, the Portage remapping library, and the FleCSI framework.  His experience includes implementing physics models, porting code to run on GPUs, and developing software infrastructure to support subject-matter experts in writing their own simulation tools.

Philipp Edelmann

CAI-1 Applied Computer Science Philipp is a staff scientist in CAI-1 with a background in stellar astrophysics, numerical methods for hydrodynamics, and high-performance computing. He has experience with implicit solvers for low Mach number hydrodynamics, nuclear reaction networks, and spectral methods. Currently he is working on developing portable and scalable multiphysics applications as part of the Ristra project.

Richard Berger

CAI-1 Applied Computer Science

Sumathi Lakshmiranganatha

CAI-1 Applied Computer Science Sumathi is a computational scientist with a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She has experience in porting and optimization of scientific applications like weather and power grid models on heterogeneous computing architectures. Her research interests include parallel-in-time algorithms on emerging hardware architectures and explainable machine learning models for scientific applications.

Founder

Allen McPherson
R.I.P. (Retired in Paradise)
Al McPherson is a computer scientist and the former lead of the CAI-1 Co-Design team.

Previous Leads

  • Julien Loiseau
  • Hyun Lim
  • Christoph Junghans
  • Robert Pavel
  • Vinay Ramakrishnaiah

Previous mentors

  • Andrew Gaspar
  • Ben Bergen
  • Chris Malone
  • Chris Mauney
  • David Gunter
  • Eduardo Lozano
  • Hyun Lim
  • Irina Demeshko
  • Irina Sagert
  • Jamal Mohd-Yusof
  • Jonah Miller
  • Joshua C Dolence
  • Julien Loiseau
  • Karen Tsai
  • Li-Ta (Ollie) Lo
  • Marc Charest
  • Maxim Moraru
  • Nirmal Prajapati
  • Patricia (Pat) Grubel
  • Patrick McCormick
  • Reid Priedhorsky
  • Sam Jones
  • Thomas Vogel
  • Wesley Paul Even