Board of Directors

Partha Tirumalai, Oracle – Chair (through 2026)

Partha is an Architect in the Systems Group of Oracle Corporation. His interests are in processor architecture, optimizing and parallelizing compilers, application performance, and high performance computing systems. He has authored numerous papers and has received a number of patents in these areas. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and earlier worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Partha holds a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from I.I.T., Madras, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Northwestern University.

Barbara Chapman, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (through 2027)

Barbara is a Distinguished Technologist for the Cray Programming Environment at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). She has been a Professor of Computer Science for over 20 years and is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University. Dr. Chapman moreover has served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her research interests encompass technologies and strategies for application development and deployment on large-scale computers, with a primary focus on parallel programming models and their implementation. She founded cOMPunity, Inc., in 2001 to facilitate researcher participation in the development of the OpenMP standard, and has been a member of the OpenMP Architecture Review Board since that time. Barbara holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen’s University of Belfast.

Duncan Poole (through 2025)

Duncan Poole retired from NVIDIA after more than 15 years of service. During his tenure he was responsible for driving partnerships where engineering interfaces are adopted by external parties who are building tools for accelerated computing. This included operating systems, compilers, profilers, debuggers, performance analysis tools, compute and communications libraries. Duncan is also a board member of OpenACC, and previously represented NVIDIA on the governing board of PyTorch, one of the most widely used frameworks in the AI space. He has a strong interest in the communities developing and using tools for HPC and AI.

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