Presenter

Lubomir Riha is a senior research scientist at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava, Czech Republic (IT4I). Previously he was a research scientist in the High Performance Computing Lab at The George Washington University, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department. He has received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic in 2011 and D.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Bowie State University, USA, in 2012. His research interests include acceleration of scientific applications using multi- and many-core architectures, e.g. GPU and Intel Xeon Phi. He is a principal developer of the Intel Parallel Computing Center where his team works on the acceleration of Finite Element Tearing and Interconnect (FETI) sparse solvers using the latest Intel many-core accelerators, and is developing an interface for community codes. He is also an investigator of the FP7 EXA2CT and HORIZON 2020 READEX projects.