Bio
Suzy Tichenor has over 20 years of experience creating partnerships and programs at all levels of the government, private sector and not-for-profit organizations. She is the Director of the HPC Industrial Partnerships Program in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. This program provides companies access to the Laboratory’s leadership-class HPC systems and modeling and simulation expertise in order to address complex, competitively important problems that exceed a firm’s internal capabilities. She is also co-Executive Director of the Department of Energy (DOE) Exascale Computing Project Industry and Agency Council.
Prior to Oak Ridge, she was Vice President of the Council on Competitiveness and directed its High Performance Computing Initiative. With support from the DOE’s Office of Science and NNSA, NSF, and DARPA, this initiative explored how high performance computing is a driver for economic productivity, and opportunities for public-private partnerships to expand HPC use across industry.