Brandon Cook

Brandon leads the simulations area of NERSC's application readiness program (NESAP) and works on understanding and analyzing performance on a system, workflow, and application level, developing future benchmark suites, analyzing future architectures, and developing tools to help NERSC users/staff be more productive, acting as NERSC liaison for several NESAP teams, and exploring future programming models.

Brandon received his Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University in 2012, where he studied ab initio methods for quantum transport in nanomaterials. Before joining NERSC he was a postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he developed and applied electronic structure methods to problems in material science.