Kevin Gott

Kevin Gott is a staff member in the User Engagement Group (UEG) at NERSC. His primary interests are scientific community engagement and application performance research. He is a member of NERSC's Community Engagement Team, working on developing a community of practice with NERSC users, and is on the technical committee of AMReX. He won the 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Award for research into the design of laser-based electron accelerators with the AMReX-based code WarpX and the LBNL Director's Achievement Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 2023. He joined UEG after holding a postdoc and staff position with the Application Performance Group (APG), where he focused on optimizing scientific applications using various methods. These included porting and optimizing scientific applications to GPUs using CUDA, HIP, and DPC++, implementing asynchronous I/O functionality, and designing, coding, and optimizing new AMR interpolation algorithms. Gott earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. His dissertation explored using a hybrid CFD-DSMC solver for modeling physical vapor deposition technologies. His other PhD work included thermal modeling of copper-diamond composites, anisotropic heat sinks, and lone star ticks.