Dr. Dingwen Tao is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Riverside in 2018, focusing on High-Performance Computing and his B.S. in 2013 in Mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2013, majoring in Information and Computing Science. Prior to joining UA, he worked as a R&D intern in the Computational Science Initiative Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, and High-Performance Computing Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.