Bill Feiereisen

Bill Feiereisen is the Director of High Performance Computing, DoD for Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was formerly the laboratory Chief Technologist and Division Director of the Computer and Computational Sciences Division at Los Alamos and before that the head of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility at Ames Research Center.

He is active in the broader computer science community, serving on the editorial board of IEEE Computers in Science and Engineering, as the former chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Open Grid Forum, on the council of the NSF Computing Community Consortium and as a founding member of the New Mexico Computing Applications Center. He is a member of numerous review boards and advisory committees.  

Bill's original interests in high performance computing come from computational fluid dynamics and range from turbulence modeling to rarefied gas dynamics with applications to turbo-machinery and hypersonic flows. However the computer science of high performance computing that underlies computational science has been a motivator for his work since the nineties.

He holds a Doctorate and Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Wisconsin.

In his copius free time he is a wannabe bicycle racer and can usually be found running last in club races in New Mexico.