Presenter

Nick Brown is an applications consultant at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh specializing in developing large scale HPC codes, parallel programming language design, and compilers. Nick is a STEM ambassador, is heavily involved with EPCC’s outreach program and with experience in engagement targeted toward school children (K-12.) He has also developed a number of successful public engagement activities from dinosaur racing, where the public can design their own dinosaurs which are then simulated and raced against each other to see who can create the fastest dinosaur, to the “design your own supercomputer” web-app where the public can create a supercomputer within a certain monetary and power budget to see who can execute the most operations within a certain timeframe. Nick is also heavily involved with teaching, developing courses, and supervising students, both on EPCC’s Masters program and also external training courses