Zhengji Zhao

Zhengji Zhao

HPC Architect and Performance Engineer

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

HPC Technology Dept.

Advanced Technologies Group

Zhengji Zhao is a member of the Advanced Technologies Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has nearly 20 years of experience in high-performance computing (HPC), with a broad portfolio that includes supporting materials science and chemistry applications, participating in system procurements, developing workload analysis tools, and porting applications to many-core and GPU-based systems. She has led the development of checkpoint/restart standards for HPC production workloads and specializes in power and energy analsyis and modeling to improve data center operational efficiency. She has authored more than 40 publications in these areas. Zhengji holds a Ph.D. in computational physics from New York University.

Education

Ph. D. - New York University, USA

Master of Science - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, United States

Recent Publications

Benchmark-driven Models for Energy Analysis and Attribution of GPU-Accelerated Supercomputing

Authors: Antepara, O; Zhao, Z; Austin, B; Ding, N; Oliker, L; Wright, NJ

November 2025


A Global Perspective on Supercomputer Power Provisioning: Case Studies from United States and Europe

Authors: Patki, T; Rountree, B; Wilde, T; Bartolini, A; Brink, S; Heiskanen, E

June 2025


Maximizing Power-Constrained Supercomputing Throughput

Authors: Ding, N; Antepara, O; Zhao, Z; Austin, B; Oliker, L; Wright, NJ

June 2025


Understanding VASP Power Profiles on NVIDIA A100 GPUs

Authors: Zhao, Z; Austin, B; Rrapaj, E; Wright, NJ

November 2024


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