Bio
Wesley Brewer is a Senior Research Scientist and Acting Group Leader of the Workflows and Ecosystem Services (WES) group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). He spent the past three years working in the Analytics and AI Methods at Scale (AAIMS) group on AI for Science and Digital Twins for HPC, leading the development of ExaDigiT digital twin and SICKLE intelligent sampling frameworks. 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.
Awards
- Fulbright Specialist in Computer Science, U.S. State Department, 2025-2028
- R&D 100 Award for ExaDigiT Digital Twin Framework, 2025
- UT-Battelle Award for Distinguished Innovation, 2025
- DoD HPCMP Hero Award for Technical Excellence, 2019
- IEEE/ACM Paper awards: Best (×2), Outstanding (×2)
Education
- Ph.D. in Computational Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2002
- M.S. in Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
- B.S. in Engineering Science & Mechanics, University of Tennessee, 1993
Professional Service
- Project Lead of ExaDigiT open source community (2022-current)
- ACM SIGSIM PADS Co-Chair on Digital Twins Track (2026)
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on Digital Twins for HPC (SC'24, SC'25)
- Publicity co-chair, IEEE Cluster (2025)
- TPC Member, AI for Science Workshop (SC'23, SC'24, SC'25)
- TPC Member, Data Readiness for AI (DRAI) Workshop (ICPP'25)
- Nominating committee member of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (2016-2019)
- Expert Contributor, UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2018)
- Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2016)