Bio
Wesley Brewer is a Senior Research Scientist in the Analytics & AI Methods at Scale (AAIMS) group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). Before joining ORNL, he served five years as a Computational Scientist for the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). Prior to that, he spent eight years teaching computer science in Korea. His career began as a graduate research assistant at MIT’s Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory, where he conducted computational and experimental research on hydrofoil cavitation. He went on to work at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (Carderock Division), focusing on experimental analysis and computational modeling of hydrodynamic propulsion systems, and later held a research faculty position at Mississippi State University, funded by the Office of Naval Research. His background is in computational fluid dynamics, with extensive experience in machine learning for scientific workflows at scale on HPC. Over the years, he has also consulted on projects in numerical weather simulation, computational genetics, natural language processing, cloud computing, and scientific workflows. His current interests include Scalable AI for Science and Digital Twins for HPC.
Awards
Fulbright Specialist Roster, Computer Science (2025-2028)
Outstanding paper award, IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC), 2020
DoD HPCMP Hero award for Technical Excellence, 2019
Best paper award, Technology Review Journal, 2004
Education
Ph.D. in Computational Engineering, Mississippi State University (MSU), 2002
M.S. in Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1995
B.S. in Engineering Science & Mechanics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), 1993
Professional Service
Project Lead of ExaDigiT open source community for digital twins of supercomputers (2022-current)
Co-organizer of the Workshop on Digital Twins for High Performance Computing (SC'24, SC'25)
Technical Program Committee Member, AI for Science Workshop (SC'23, SC'24)
Nominating committee member of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (2016-2019)
Contributor to Research Briefing, UK Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST), 2018
Special invited guest to Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2016) - to foster international collaboration
Professional Affiliations
Member, ACM SIGHPC