Steve Ashby Email: ashby1@llnl.gov Phone: 925-423-2462 Fax: 925-422-0852 Mailing address: Steve Ashby Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Box 808, L-184 Livermore, CA 94551-0808

Dr. Steven Ashby is the Deputy Principal Associate Director for Science and Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He oversees institutional S&T activities via the Institutional S&T Office (ISTO), Strategic University Relations (SUR), and Industrial Partnerships and Commercialization (IPAC). He also coordinates S&T strategic planning and business development efforts within the principal directorate.

Prior to accepting this position in October 2007, Dr. Ashby was the Deputy Associate Director for Computing Applications and Research within the Laboratory's Computation Directorate. He oversaw the research and development activities of more than 500 computer scientists and mathematicians working on a variety of applications in the defense, energy, and life sciences. He was the founding Director of the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (1996-2002) and the national Thrust Area Leader for Advanced Scientific Computing for the Department of Homeland Security (2004-2006).

Dr. Ashby's own expertise and interests lie in computational mathematics and scalable numerical algorithms. He has published a number of papers and has worked in a variety of application areas, including groundwater modeling on massively parallel computers. He presently serves on several advisory boards and is active in the computational science community. He earned his Ph.D. in 1987 in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and joined the Laboratory in 1988.

Technical Presentations

Computational Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (February 2006)
Invited Presentation, Universities of Aachen and Heidelberg

Scalable Algorithms and Novel Paradigms for Petascale Simulation (February 2006)
Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar on Architectures and Algorithms for Petascale Computing

Advanced Scientific Computing for Homeland Security (April 2005)
University Seminar Presentation

Supercomputing, Simulation, and Scientific Discovery (February 1, 2005)
SPE Conference on Reservoir Simulation (invited presentation)

Computational Science at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (November 5, 2004)
University Seminar Presentation

Leadership-class Computing: Algorithms and Software Challenges (October 19, 2004)
Fall Creek Falls Conference Panel on Innovative Mathematical Methods, Algorithms, and Software Systems (framing talk)

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