Author

Paul Messina is an Argonne Associate in the Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences Directorate of Argonne National Laboratory and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. Dr. Messina retired from Argonne in 2019 having served as founding Director of the Computational Science Division, founding Project Director for the U.S. DOE Exascale Computing Project, Director of Science for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and founding Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. From 1987-2002, he was Caltech’s founding Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research and Assistant Vice President for Scientific Computing. During a leave from Caltech in 1999-2000, he led the DOE-NNSA Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative.