Bruce Henrickson (LLNL) and Ronak Shah (NVIDIA) Join CRA-Industry Council
CRA-Industry (CRA-I) is pleased to welcome Bruce Hendrickson (LLNL) and Ronak Shah (NVIDIA) to the CRA-I Council. They join an expanding group of Council members, under the leadership of CRA-I Council Chair Ron Brachman (Cornell Tech), who will continue collaborating with the CRA-I Steering Committee. Together, they will focus on shaping the committee’s future directions, engaging with the community, and advancing the goals of CRA-I.
Bruce Hendrickson is the Principal Associate Director for Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. In this role, he leads the largest computing organization in the U.S. national lab system. He has spent his entire career in DOE labs, focused on mathematics, algorithms and architectures for large scale simulation and data science. He is a life-long techno-optimistic and is excited about the abundant opportunities for computing technology to help address societal challenges. Bruce is a member of the CRA Board of Directors, and is working to better connect CRA (and specifically CRA-I) with the large community of computing researchers at the national labs.
Ronak Shah is a Senior Manager at NVIDIA, where he oversees research institution relationships. His team helps researchers accelerate their time-to-science, fosters innovative methods, and builds partnerships. Ronak joined NVIDIA in 2016 as a Senior Account Manager for Higher Education and later managed Account Managers in the Northeast US. Prior to his tenure at NVIDIA, he was an Executive Account Manager at CDW Government, managing higher education business relationships. Ronak holds a BS in Industrial Management with a specialization in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from Northern Illinois University.
Please help the industry research community by continuing to nominate outstanding colleagues for the CRA-I Council. We have a goal to reach a steady state of 21 members that represent the breadth of the industry computing research community. Read more here and send nominations to industryinfo@cra.org.
Welcome, Bruce and Ronak!
