Bio
Wesley Brewer is a Senior Research Scientist in the Analytics & AI Methods at Scale (AAIMS) group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). Before joining ORNL, he was a Computational Scientist for the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) and spent close to a decade teaching computer science and conducting research in Korea. He first worked for several years at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, followed by several years conducting research at Mississippi State University funded by the Office of Naval Research. His background is in computational fluid dynamics, with extensive experience in machine learning for scientific workflows at scale on HPC. He has also worked in the areas of numerical weather simulation, computational genetics, natural language processing, cloud computing, and scientific workflows. His current interests include Scalable AI for Science and Digital Twins for HPC.
Awards
Fulbright Specialist Roster, Computer Science (2025-2028)
Outstanding paper award, IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC), 2020
DoD HPCMP Hero award for Technical Excellence, 2019
Best paper award, Technology Review Journal, 2004
Education
Ph.D. in Computational Engineering, Mississippi State University (MSU), 2002
M.S. in Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1995
B.S. in Engineering Science & Mechanics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), 1993
Professional Service
Project Lead of ExaDigiT digital twin framework for liquid-cooled supercomputers (2022-current)
Co-organizer of the Workshop on Digital Twins for High Performance Computing (SC'24, SC'25)
Technical Program Committee Member, AI for Science Workshop (SC'23, SC'24)
Nominating committee member of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (2016-2019)
Contributer to the UK Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology's briefing on “Science Diplomacy” (POST-PN-0568, 2018)
Special invited guest to Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2016) - to foster international collaboration
Professional Affiliations
Member, ACM SIGHPC