I am a Principal Member of Technical Staff and Senior Field Application Engineer at the HPC Center of Excellence at AMD. I have a Doctor of Engineering degree (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. My research focus was on compilers and runtime optimizations for distributed systems. My areas of interest include compiler construction, design of programming languages, parallel programming, and performance analysis and tuning. I am member of the OpenMP language committee, where I am working on and contributing to several OpenMP features. I am also the Chief Executive Officer of the OpenMP Architecture Review Board. ©