Martin Lewitt

Martin Lewitt has a strong background in technical and scientific roles related to parallel computing. Martin started their career as a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the University of Houston, where they gained experience in programming and hardware architecture.

Martin then worked at various companies including Floating Point Systems, Alliant Computer Systems, nCUBE, Hewlett-Packard, Veritomyz, and Massively Parallel Technologies. At these companies, they held positions such as Staff Scientist, Regional Analyst Manager, Senior Applications and Math Library Specialist, and Principal Engineer.

In these roles, Martin was involved in tasks such as supporting and optimizing applications for parallel computers, mentoring and training colleagues, benchmarking, and providing technical support to customers. Martin'swork involved a wide range of applications including climate and weather models, chemistry codes, bioinformatics codes, shock-hydrodynamics, plasma physics, RADAR, computational fluid dynamics, and more. Martin's expertise also included performance optimization, porting, and benchmarking.

Martin Lewitt completed their undergraduate education at the University of Washington from 1971 to 1975, where they obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. Martin'sfield of study included economics, physics, and philosophy. Subsequently, they pursued graduate studies in computer science at the University of Houston from 1980 to 1982. Prior to that, they engaged in graduate work in business administration at The University of Texas at Austin from 1979 to 1980.