Author

Rick Stevens is Argonne’s Associate Laboratory Director for the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) Directorate and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Stevens has been at Argonne since 1982. He has significant responsibility in delivering on the national initiative for exascale computing and developing the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) AI for Science national initiative. Recently, he has focused on developing artificial intelligence methods for a variety of scientific and biomedical challenges. Stevens is currently the PI of the Bacterial / Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC), which is developing comparative analysis tools for infectious disease research and serves a large user community; the Exascale Deep Learning and Simulation Enabled Precision Medicine for Cancer project through the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), which focuses on building a scalable deep neural network application, and numerous other projects.