Jose L Salcedo Perez

Bio

José Luis Salcedo-Pérez is an Associate Staff Computational Physicist working in Thomas Evans’ High Performance Computing Methods and Nuclear Applications Group, which is part of the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycles Divisions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Before coming to ORNL, José completed his B.Sc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez campus (UPRM) (2015) where he did research on composite materials under Prof. Oscar Marcelo-Suárez and on computational chemistry under Prof. María Curet-Arana.

He then completed his M.Sc in Nuclear Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2019). His thesis was supervised by Prof. Benoit Forget and Prof. Kord Smith and focused on profiling and understanding the on-node performance bottlenecks in OpenMC as well as exploring different alternatives to mitigate them. His main interest is applying scientific computing (i.e., high performance computing, GPU programming, performance analysis, optimization) to stochastic and deterministic transport methods.