Bill Kramer to Lead Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

CS alumnus Bill Kramer (Ph.D. 2008, advisors: David Culler and James Demmel) has been selected as the next director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Kramer, currently project director and PI of the Blue Waters Project and the senior associate director for NCSA @Scale Science and Technology at Urbana-Champaign, begins his role in fall 2019. Kramer has also held leadership rolls at LBNL, NASA Ames, and NERSC.