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William Gropp is Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and holds the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1982 and worked at Yale University and Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential equations. He received the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award in 2008, the IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing in 2010, the SIAM SIAG/SC Career Award in 2014, the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award in 2016, and was a member of the team that won the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering in 2015. He is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.