Carl Pearson is Computer Science Research and Development staff in the Scalable Algorithms group at Sandia National Laboratories and a Research Assistant Professor (LAT) of Computer Science at University of New Mexico. He works on future architectures for scientific computing, GPU communication for distributed linear algebra, and GPU acceleration of irregular operations. He received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, and his B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.