Aaron Andersen

Group Manager - Advanced Computing Operations, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Aaron Andersen oversees NREL's Advanced Computing Operations group within the Computational Sciences Center, providing highly energy-efficient, high-performance computing (HPC), on-prem cloud, and cloud technologies for research across the laboratory. He has crosscutting expertise in system architecture, engineering, and operations. Aaron is interested in data center design, advanced computing, and optimization.

His professional experience includes; HPC oversight as program manager and project manager for Top-500 Systems, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), leadership and management of primarily systems engineers and planning, design, construction, and transition to operations of the NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center.

Aaron holds a B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado and an M.E., Computer Science, University of Colorado.