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Dr. Damian Rouson is the Group Lead for the Computer Languages and Systems Software Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on accelerating computational science and engineering applications using partitioned global address space programming models and emerging hardware, including GPUs and AI accelerators. He was awarded a 2020 Better Scientific Software Fellowship by the Exascale Computing Project. He leads the development of the OpenCoarrays parallel runtime library. He co-authored the textbook Scientific Software Design: The Object-Oriented Way (Cambridge Press 2011) and has taught related courses and tutorials at universities, labs and conferences. He has held staff and faculty appointments at universities and labs in the U.S. and Europe. He received a B.S. from Howard University and M.S./Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. He founded the software consultancy Archaeologic, Inc. and the California not-for-profit Sourcery Institute.