Biography
Over the years, Igor Sfiligoi has been engaged in the computing community across a wide breath of roles, participating among others as researcher, developer, architect, operator and manager. He has been working in both academia and industry, which helps him appreciate the variety of problems computers help to solve. He has been working with both systems that support tightly coupled and worldwide-scale pleasantly parallel codes, and realizes that each approach has its own advantages and challenges. His most recent interests lie in porting and optimizing scientific codes, with an emphasis on GPU-accelerated systems. In his current role at SDSC he is putting his extensive knowledge to use across many scientific domains, spanning fusion research, structural engineering, computational biology, high energy physics and astrophysics.
