Szilárd Páll is an HPC researcher at the PCD Center for High Performance Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has a background in computer science and computational biophysics and has programmed GPU accelerators since 2008. He worked on reformulating key parallel algorithms for modern processor architectures and co-authored the first heterogeneous CPU-GPU parallelization of GROMACS, one of the most widely used HPC simulation software. His recent focus is on efficient asynchronous task scheduling on exascale heterogeneous architectures.