Dr. Cris Cecka received his PhD from Stanford University in Computational and Mathematical Engineering in 2011. He joined the new Institute for Applied Computational Science at Harvard University as a lecturer and research scientist where he created courses on parallel computing and robust software development. He also worked in the Mathematics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research associate where he focused on integral equation methods, structured dense matrix factorizations, and generalized N-body problems using hierarchical algorithms. In 2015, Cris joined NVIDIA Research to combine all of these interests in designing advanced numerical algorithms and software.