Dr. Rupak Biswas

As chief of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division, Dr. Rupak Biswas oversees the full range of high-performance computing services for NASA’s primary supercomputing center. His key responsibilities are setting high-level objectives for the division, creating and maintaining a productive, high-impact computational facility, and coordinating technical strategy with NASA senior management. This work encompasses managing about 150 R&D scientists, engineers, and support staff comprised of civil servants and contractors. 

Dr. Biswas is an internationally recognized expert in supercomputing and has published more than 150 technical papers on a variety of scientific computing topics in archival journals and at major peer-reviewed conferences, given numerous talks at home and abroad, and edited several journal special issues.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991, and has been at NASA ever since. During this time, he has received several NASA awards, including the Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2009, and two Best Paper prizes given at the international “SC” conference on high-performance computing, network, and storage.