Nick Sarkauskas is a software engineer at X-ScaleSolutions and a PhD student in computer science and engineering at Ohio State University. His current work at X-ScaleSolutions is on the design and development of the MVAPICH2-DPU software stack. His research interests include high performance computing, high performance interconnects, and parallel algorithms. Nick Sarkauskas received a B.S. degree in computer science and engineering from OSU in 2020.