Speaker: Dr. Saber Feki, Lead of HPC Computational Scientists Team at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Supercomputing Core Laboratory

Dr. Saber Feki leads the Computational Scientists team at the KAUST Supercomputing Core Laboratory, supporting scientific applications and training scientists to effectively use the leadership supercomputer facilities at KAUST. He is also a key member of the technical team of procurement and leading the acceptance of the world's seventh fastest supercomputer, Shaheen XC40. Dr. Saber received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He then joined the oil and gas company TOTAL in 2011 as an HPC Research Scientist. Dr. Saber has been working at KAUST since 2012. His research interests include parallel programming models and automatic performance tuning of MPI communications, and OpenACC accelerated applications on GPUs such as computational electromagnetics and seismic imaging.

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