Dr. Joseph Schoonover holds degrees in Applied Mathematics, Physics, and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Florida State University. His graduate studies focused on Gulf Stream separation dynamics and high order methods for computational fluid dynamics. After graduating from FSU, he held a post-doc position at the Center for Non-Linear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is where his interest in GPU acceleration was born through mentorship activities at the Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship. After leaving CNLS and LANL, Joe became an associate scientist at CU Boulder to work at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center to accelerate the operational WAM-IPE code for modeling ionosphere phenomena. Joe has since moved on to a startup company, Fluid Numerics, founded with Guy Thorsby and Elizabeth Simons, that aims to help domain scientists and software developers leverage the latest computing technologies and cloud computing platforms for high performance computing.