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Dr. Kenneth C. J. Tan

Short  Biography

Dr Kenneth Tan founded OptimaNumerics in 2002, with a prominent international background in supercomputing and computational science. 

While pursuing his engineering degree, he was in the hardware sales business, and subsequently worked as an HPC and large scale storage researcher in Canada before moving on to private HPC consultancy in the European market, servicing customers in the high end financial simulation and forecasting software area. 
In 2000, he was appointed as the youngest university lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, after completing his PhD in record time at the University of Reading.

The call of supercomputing industry soon beckoned, being headhunted to work for Quadrics, a world-class supercomputer hardware vendor, on assignment at SHARCNET, Canada's largest civilian supercomputer centre.

Following that, he went to Russia as guest scientist at the Russian Ministry of Science and visiting professor at St Petersburg State Technical University. 
In late 2001, he returned to Canada as HPC Consultant with SHARCNET, responsible for building the user community of the supercomputer resources and managing technical operations at the supercomputer centre. 

He founded OptimaNumerics in 2002 having identified a method to significantly improve productivity and performance of supercomputers.

Kenneth Tan is the editor of 27 books, founding Editor-in-Chief of Transactions on Computational Science, and has been a guest speaker at over 20 events and computing centres worldwide.  Kenneth Tan co-founded two of the major computational science conference series.