Dr. Scott Kohn is an Associate Program Leader in the Information Operations and Analytics Program in Global Security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Scott leads research programs in advanced computing technologies, including quantum computing and high-performance computing.  Previously, Scott has held various positions at the Laboratory, including work in structured adaptive mesh refinement, scientific software component technologies, and cyber security.

Dr. Kohn received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Go Bucky!) in 1990. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego in 1995. He joined the Laboratory in 1996. From 2003-2004, he was the Director of Information Technology for OpGen, a biotechnology start-up company in Madison, WI, developing novel techniques for large-scale genomic analysis.