Dong Ahn

Dong H. Ahn is an AI infrastructure architect and distinguished engineer at NVIDIA. He builds AI factory control planes that combine agentic AI, automated recovery, and Slurm and Kubernetes orchestration to improve reliability and goodput across HPC and cloud infrastructure. He architected NVIDIA Recovery, a reference implementation integrated into NVIDIA Mission Control and DGX Cloud and used across NVIDIA’s fleet of more than 100,000 GPUs. Previously, he spent more than 20 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he led development of the Flux framework, which now manages the El Capitan exascale supercomputer. His work has earned R&D 100 Awards in 2011 and 2021.