Biography
Javier Hernandez-Nicolau is a Data Scientist in the Scientific applications group at SDSC. He obtained his PhD in Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion at the University of Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) in 2019 and then worked as a Project Scientist at the University of California-Irvine. He developed and optimized MHD and gyrokinetic fusion plasma codes for several HPC systems using Fortan, OpenMP and OpenACC. He joined SDSC in 2023 where he keeps collaborating with the Nuclear Fusion community developing ML/AI applications. He also offers user support to deploy a large variety of AI models on the Voyager machine which uses Intel Gaudi accelerators.
