Giridhar Chukkapalli Giri Chukkapalli is a distinguished computer scientist and engineer with over three decades of experience in high-performance computing, parallel algorithms, and supercomputer architecture. His groundbreaking Ph.D. thesis (1993-1997) introduced novel approaches to solving Shallow Water Equations on spherical domains, including a unique Finite Element mesh using spherical spirals. Throughout his career, Dr. Chukkapalli has made significant contributions to the field, working at prestigious institutions such as San Diego Supercomputer Center, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Appro, Cray, Broadcom and NVIDIA. His expertise spans a wide range of areas, including parallel computing, performance analysis, system architecture, and hardware design. Dr. Chukkapalli has been instrumental in developing and optimizing numerous supercomputing platforms, contributing to major projects like the BlueGene/L and the TACC Ranger system. His work also includes work on the ARM64bit processors and power-efficient multi-core SoC designs for pre-Exascale supercomputer systems. At NVIDIA, Dr. Chukkapalli is at the forefront of innovation in the CTO office, spearheading the development of the cutting-edge Grace chip architecture recently launched by NVIDIA.