Dr. Jack J. Dongarra

Turing Award laureate

Creator of LINPACK, LAPACK, BLAS, ScaLAPACK, and the TOP500 supercomputer ranking — foundational infrastructure for modern high-performance computing that underpins computational plasma physics and fusion simulation worldwide. Former Senior Scientist at Argonne and Distinguished Research Staff at ORNL.

Education

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics — University of New Mexico
M.S., Computer Science — Illinois Institute of Technology

Honors & Highlights

ACM A.M. Turing Award (2021)
IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Sciences
Fellow of the Royal Society

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