Erik Draeger

Erik Draeger is a computational scientist at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has over a decade of experience developing scientific applications to achieve maximum scalability and time to solution on next-generation architectures. He has been a finalist for the Gordon Bell Prize five times since 2005 and won the prize in 2006. Erik holds a BA in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.