Muaaz Gul Awan

Muaaz Awan is an application performance specialist at NERSC. His expertise includes bioinformatics software development, GPU porting, optimization, and performance analysis. Currently, he is associated with the ExaBiome project where he contributes as a GPU application developer in the metagenomics analysis software pipelines. Previously, he has worked as a postdoc scholar at NERSC, LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and as a GPU application developer at EMSL, PNNL (Pacific Northwest National Lab). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Western Michigan University under the supervision of Prof. Fahad Saeed in 2019. His doctoral thesis explored high-performance computing strategies for LC-MS/MS-based proteomics workflows.