PECOS is a multi-disciplinary center bringing together expertise from a variety of departments including students, faculty, and research staff from the Oden Institute, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Institute for Fusion Studies, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

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Current Leadership

• Robert Moser (Director)

• George Biros (Co-Director)

• Jeff Early (Manager of Research Administration)
• Todd Oliver (Chief Scientist)
• Umberto Villa (Senior Software Architect)

Senior Investigators

• Martin Burtscher, Texas State University
• Noel Clemens
• Mattan Erez
• Omar Ghattas
• Milos Gligoric
• David Hatch
• John McCalpin
• Tommy Minyard
• Keshav Pingali
• Laxminarayan Raja
• Christopher Rossbach
• Philip Varghese
• Karen Willcox

Current Research Associates and Postdoctoral Fellows

• Garo Bedonian
• Milinda Fernando
• Sigfried Haering
• Max Ruth
• Will Ruys
• Ashwath Venkataraman (to start February 2025)
• Anna Yesypenko

Current Students

• Juan Barberena
• Joshua Bigman
• James Almgren-Bell
• Hanqi Dong
• Dillon Ellender
• Sahil Kommalapati
• Ruairi J. O’Connor
• Jaeyoung Park
• Andrew Nguyen
• Spenser Stark
• Yineng Yan

Past Leadership

• Karl W. Schulz (Chief Architect)

Past Senior Investigators

• Tinsley Oden

Past Research Associates and Postdoctoral Fellows

• Daniil Bochkov
• Marc Bolinches Gisbert
• Chao Chen
• Kevin SeungWhan Chung
• Matteo Croci
• Dan Fries
• Violeta Karyofylli
• William Sands
• Malamas Tsagkaridis
• Raphael Zanella

Past Students

• Nader Al Awar
• Carlie Dennard
• Ian Henriksen
• Hochan Lee
• Shane McQuarrie
• Arthur Peters
• Sean Stephens
• Shreya Talati
• Connor Walker
• Bozhi You