Henry A. Gabb
Intel Senior Principal Engineer
Henry A. Gabb is a Senior Principal Engineer in Intel’s Compute Performance and Developer Products group. Much of his career has been spent promoting the value of parallel computing. He was the program manager for the Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers, a joint Intel/Microsoft initiative at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These centers focused on making parallel programming more accessible to mainstream developers. More recently, he is studying how the convergence of traditional high-performance computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence in modern workflows impacts system design.
Henry holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Louisiana State University, a master's degree in medical informatics from the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, a doctorate in molecular genetics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, and a doctorate in information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Intel, he was Director of Scientific Computing at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center MSRC, a Department of Defense high-performance computing facility.