Kerstin Kleese van Dam

Kerstin Kleese van Dam (2018 Woman of the Year Award in Science winner Brookhaven Town, 2006 British Female Innovators and Inventors Silver Award) is the Director of the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Laboratory, leading BNL’s computer science and mathematics R&D portfolio reaching from leading edge research to operational infrastructure provision. CSI research focuses on data analytics @ scale – novel hardware to new AI and applied mathematics methods for science, exascale computational modeling and quantum information science – quantum networking to quantum machine learning. Our new 60,000 sqft data center houses a highly specialized infrastructure for data intensive and near real time computing at scale, supporting our core experiments at BNL: RHIC, NSLS II and CFN, as well as others worldwide such as LHC Atlas and Belle II. BNL hosts one of the largest scientific data centers in the world.