Jack Wells

Jack Wells is the director of higher education and research computing at NVIDIA, where he engages thought leaders across the computing ecosystem, focusing on aligning the NVIDIA platform research requirements. Jack joined NVIDIA in 2021 following 23 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was director of science for the team that delivered three world-leading supercomputers at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a Department of Energy national user facility. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 scientific papers and edited two books. He is serving as president of OpenACC, a consortium dedicated to the research community’s advancement by expanding accelerated and parallel computing capabilities. Previously, Jack served as chair of the Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society and as science advisor to U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander. Jack has a Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University.