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Erik W. Draeger is the Director of the High Performance Computing Innovation Center and RADIUSS project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as well as the Scientific Computing group leader at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing. He is also the Deputy Director of Application Development for the Exascale Computing Project, jointly overseeing a portfolio of 22 Office of Science applications, 4 NNSA applications, and 7 co-design projects. Erik earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995 and received a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2001. He has been a finalist for the Gordon Bell Prize six times since 2005 and won the prize in 2006.