Presenter

Bethel, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his team conduct basic and applied research and development on techniques and tools for enabling scientific knowledge discovery in some of the world's largest collections of scientific data generated by computational models, simulations, and experiments. His research interests include high performance and data-intensive computing; computer graphics; scientific and information visualization; image and signal analysis; performance optimization in data-intensive applications; distributed computing; methods for knowledge discovery; and usability. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (UC Berkeley).