Edgar Leon is a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (LLNL) and a senior member of the Institute of Electricaland Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He leads Supercomputing research anddevelopment to enable high-performance, productivity, and portabilityof scientific applications in support of the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to LLNL, Edgar worked at IBM Research and Sandia NationalLaboratories. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universityof New Mexico and is an avid contributor to High-PerformanceComputing.