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Katherine J. Evans is the Division Director for the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She is also an active researcher in the areas of Earth system model (ESM) evaluation, developing and implementing scalable numerical algorithms to improve the efficiency and accuracy for multi-scale configurations of ESM, and analysis of large-scale persistent weather patterns in global atmospheric models. As part of her numerical methods research with ESM, she also makes connections to other applications, including ice sheets, more general fluid flow, disease propagation, and oncology. Evans earned her PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences with an emphasis in math from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 and led the Computational Earth Sciences group at ORNL for 6 years before her current role. She is a member of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians.

Siddhartha Mishra is a Professor for Computational and Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich and a core faculty member of ETH AI Center. Mishra’s research interests are in numerical analysis, scientific computing, nonlinear PDEs, machine learning, high-performance computing and applications to physics and engineering. Mishra’s research has been recognized with many awards and honors including the ERC Starting Grant (2012), ERC Consolidator Grant (2017), GAMM Richard Von Mises Prize (2015), ECCOMASS Jacques Louis Lions Medal (2018), ICIAM Collatz Prize (2019) , INFOSYS prize in Mathematical Science (2019) and SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize (2021). He has been an invited speaker at many leading international conferences including the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), Rio De Janiero, 2018.