
Bio
Asim YarKhan is an HPC Engineer in the System Acceptance and User Environment group at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Prior to joining ORNL, Asim YarKhan was a Research Scientist in the Innovative Computing Lab at the University of Tennessee from 2001 thru 2023. He has worked on projects varying from grid computing (GrADS), network solvers (GridSolve), performance analysis (PAPI), runtimes (QUARK, QUARK-D) and linear algebra (PLASMA and SLATE). He earned a PhD in Computer Science under Dr. Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee, a MS in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University, a MS in Applied Math from University of Akron, and a BA in Computer Science and Math from the College of Wooster.