Bio
Wesley Brewer is a Senior Research Scientist and Interim 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 framework and SICKLE intelligent sampling framework. 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
- R&D 100 Award for ExaDigiT Digital Twin Framework, 2025
- Best paper award for AI-Simulation Workflow Patterns, ISAV Workshop @SC'25, led by ANL, 2025
- UT-Battelle Award for Distinguished Innovation - to ExaDigiT Team, 2025
- Outstanding short paper award, MIT/IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC), 2025
- Fulbright Specialist in Computer Science, U.S. State Department, 2025-2028
- Special Performance Achievement (SPA) award - for digital twin of Frontier, ORNL/NCCS, 2024
- Outstanding paper award, MIT/IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC), 2020
- HPCMP Hero Award for Technical Excellence, DoD HPCMP, 2019
- Best paper award, Technology Review Journal, 2004
- Outstanding contributions in research, Mississippi State University, 2002
- Exemplary performance and service, NSWC Carderock, 1996
- 1st place CAD design, 2nd place overall design, SAE International Aero Design Competition, 1993
- Tau Beta Pi, 1993
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, SC'25)
- Technical Program Committee Member, Data Readiness for AI (DRAI) Workshop at ICPP'25
- Nominating committee member of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (2016-2019)
- Contributed expert insights as an interviewee for the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) POSTnote on Science Diplomacy (2018), which provides evidence-based policy briefings to Members of Parliament.
- Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2016)
Professional Affiliations
- Member, ACM SIGHPC