Damien Lebrun-Grandie Damien Lebrun-Grandie is a Computational Scientist with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research focus on the development of algorithms and enabling technologies for the solution of large-scale complex engineering and scientific problems. He is a high-performance computing expert and is a member of the ISO C++ Standards Committee. He co-leads the Kokkos performance portability library team. He holds a MEng in Applied Physics from Grenoble INP in France, and a MSc in Physics from Karlruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He completed his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University.