Bio
Damien Lebrun-Grandié is a Senior Computational Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with over a decade of experience in the field. He holds a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University, a MSc in Physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and a MEng in Physics Engineering from Grenoble INP in France. His research focuses on developing algorithms and enabling technologies for solving large-scale, complex engineering, and scientific problems.
As a founding member of the High Performance Software Foundation, Damien was instrumental in getting the organization started and continues to play a leading role on the Governing Board, representing the Technical Advisory Council. He is also the co-lead of the Kokkos C++ performance portability project, where he oversees a large international team of developers and researchers. Additionally, he represents ORNL on the C++ Standards Committee, where he has been a key contributor to foundational features for scientific computing like std::mdspan in C++23 and std::linalg for C++26.