Meet Bill Gropp

William Gropp is the former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (July 2017-December 2025), a professor of Computer Science in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, and holds a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1982.  He was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department of Yale University from 1982-1990 and from 1990-2007, he was a member of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.  His research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential equations.  He is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

His extensive research honors include the ACM Software System Award (2024), Sigma Xi (2018), AAS Fellow (2018) and the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award (2016). He has also been awarded the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2015) and the SIAM/SC Career Prize (2014).

Bill was recently named chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). In their announcement, the CCC said, "Gropp has long been an influential leader in high-performance computing (HPC) and in shaping national research directions in computing."

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