Fred Streitz

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ABOUT FRED STREITZ

As Chief Computational Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Fred Streitz leads efforts to develop HPC applications that push the limits of leadership-class computational capability to address forefront scientific problems. He has twice led multidisciplinary/multi-institutional teams that were awarded a Gordon Bell Prize for significant achievement in supercomputing (and his teams have been finalists twice more). His current focus is as a Senior Advisor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on a detail assignment from LLNL. In this role, Fred will help coordinate the development and deployment of computational and analytical capability at the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at CDC. Prior to this assignment, Fred was at Department of Energy HQ to help define and instantiate the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office (AITO), which was successfully launched in September 2019. After the creation of the office, he remained on as Science Advisor until his re-assignment in 2022. Dr. Streitz is a member of the White House National AI Research Resource Task Force and serves as the Associate Editor for the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Prior to joining Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate in Fred held positions as a National Research Council Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory and an Assistant Professor at Auburn University. Fred earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.