Rollin C. Thomas

Rollin Thomas is currently a data architect at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. He focuses on solving strategic challenges at the interface between user productivity and high-performance computing. He is the originator of NERSC's scalable Python support strategy, the creator of its Exascale Applications Readiness Program for Data, and is the chief architect of NERSC's Jupyter interface to its supercomputing resources. Prior to joining NERSC, in 2015, he was a computational astrophysicist working in the areas of numerical radiative transfer, spectroscopy, supernova cosmology, and computational infrastructure for cosmology experiments. Contact him at rcthomas@lbl.gov.