HPC 커리어 노트: July 2026

It is time once again for *HPC Career Notes*, our monthly feature designed to keep you updated on the latest career developments within the high-performance computing community, including promotions, new hires, and accolades. Check back each month for the latest updates—you may even recognize someone you know, or perhaps yourself.

**Amanda Randles**

Amanda Randles, a biomedical engineer and computer scientist, has been promoted to full professor in Duke University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. The promotion, announced by the Randles Lab, takes effect July 1.

Randles first joined Duke as an undergraduate before returning as a faculty member in 2015. Since then, she has built a multidisciplinary research program focused on high-performance computing, vascular digital twins, artificial intelligence, and computational medicine, with applications spanning cardiovascular disease and cancer.

“This promotion reflects the support of outstanding mentors, colleagues, students, postdoctoral researchers, staff, collaborators, and my family,” Randles said. “I am grateful for the opportunity to continue advancing our research and training the next generation of computational scientists and biomedical engineers at Duke.”

**Alison Derbenwick Miller**

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has appointed Alison Derbenwick Miller as its new CEO and Executive Director. Derbenwick Miller brings more than three decades of executive leadership experience spanning research, education, enterprise technology, and global partnerships. A longtime ACM volunteer leader, she most recently served as Co-Chair of the ACM Education Board and as an ACM Council Member-at-Large. Prior to this appointment, she served as Chief Research Officer at Elev8Data, following more than 30 years at Oracle.

In her new role, Derbenwick Miller will work alongside ACM’s volunteer leadership and professional staff to strengthen the association’s position as the global home for the computing community while advancing its mission of research, education, professional development, and scientific collaboration.

“ACM has long been the place where the computing community comes together to advance ideas, share knowledge, and shape the future of our profession,” Derbenwick Miller said. “As AI, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies reshape nearly every aspect of society, the computing community is expanding across industries and academic disciplines. At this moment, ACM’s mission has never been more important. I look forward to working with our members, volunteers, partners, and staff to welcome new computing communities, strengthen ACM’s impact, and ensure both current and the next generation of computing professionals continue to lead with technical excellence and a commitment to the public good.”

**Michelle Rosen**

HPC and AI storage provider DDN has appointed Michelle Rosen as its new Chief Legal Officer (CLO). As CLO, Rosen will oversee DDN’s global legal organization, encompassing corporate governance, commercial transactions, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, privacy, and strategic legal operations.

Rosen joins DDN with more than two decades of executive legal leadership. Most recently, she served as general counsel at Metropolis Technologies, and previously held the CLO role at Collibra.

“DDN is one of the most exciting technology companies in the AI industry today,” Rosen said. “The company has established itself as a leader in the infrastructure powering the next generation of AI, and its growth trajectory speaks for itself. I’m excited to join the leadership team at such an important moment, help scale the business globally, support our customers and partners, and build the legal organization that will enable DDN’s continued success for years to come.”

**Paul Kearns**

Argonne National Laboratory has announced that Director Paul Kearns will retire next year after nearly a decade leading one of the nation’s premier science and engineering research institutions. UChicago Argonne, LLC, which manages Argonne for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, will conduct an international search for the laboratory’s next director.

During Kearns’ tenure, Argonne achieved a series of milestones that have accelerated science and technology for national benefit. These include the upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source, now the world’s brightest synchrotron X-ray light source. In 2025, the laboratory renewed Q-NEXT—one of five DOE national quantum information science research centers—for a second five-year term.

Argonne also expanded the Materials Engineering Research Facility, strengthened industry partnerships to accelerate the translation of discoveries into real-world applications, renewed its management and operating contract with UChicago Argonne for another five years, and deepened community engagement across Chicago and the surrounding region.

“Serving as director of Argonne National Laboratory has been a true honor and a privilege,” Kearns said. “What has always made this laboratory exceptional is its people—the researchers, engineers, and operations professionals who come to work every day driven by curiosity and a genuine desire to serve the nation. I am proud of everything we have built and accomplished together, from major upgrades to our flagship science facilities to the daily discoveries and innovations that drive our society forward.”

Kearns will retire effective March 31, 2027, or earlier should a transition to his successor be completed ahead of schedule.

**Mian Quddus**

Mian Quddus, chairman of the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association—a leader in standards development for the microelectronics industry—has been selected to receive the 2026 FMS Lifetime Achievement Award from the Future of Memory and Storage conference. He will formally receive the award at the FMS event in Santa Clara, California, on August 4.

Quddus, vice president of standards and technology enablement at Samsung Semiconductor, was honored for “his sustained leadership in industry standards organizations whose work has significantly advanced the memory and storage sector and the broader computing industry,” according to the FMS group.

Over his 22-year tenure, JEDEC has played a central role in advancing the industry through open standards that have supported the rapid growth of cloud computing, AI, mobile devices, automotive electronics, and high-performance computing. These include standards underpinning modern memory and storage, such as successive generations of DDR, LPDDR, HBM, GDDR, NAND flash, Universal Flash Storage (UFS), and solid-state drive (SSD) technologies, alongside standards for the quality and reliability of solid-state devices.

Demonstrating his deep commitment to JEDEC and industry standards, Quddus has also served as Chair of both the JEDEC JC-45 Committee for DRAM Modules and the JC-64 Committee for Embedded Memory Storage & Removable Cards since their establishment as standalone committees over two decades ago. JC-45 oversees dozens of essential standards for DRAM memory modules, while JC-64 has developed numerous flash-based storage technologies.

“On behalf of the entire JEDEC community, we congratulate Mian on this well-deserved recognition,” said John Kelly, JEDEC President. “His decades of leadership and commitment to collaborative standards development have helped enable the technologies that power today’s connected, data-driven world.”

**Hong Wang**

New York University Professor Hong Wang has been awarded the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, the International Mathematical Union announced.

Wang, Silver Professor of Mathematics at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, was recognized for resolving a decades-old problem in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory: the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture. This mathematical problem addresses how small a set can be while still containing a unit line segment in every direction.

“Moments like this never belong to just one person,” Wang said. “They are the culmination of years of chance encounters and unexpected questions that steer you in the right direction. I have been so lucky to work alongside brilliant colleagues at every stage of my career, and this honor is theirs as much as it is mine. I am so grateful to the IMU for this award and so excited for what is to come.”

Wang is the first NYU faculty member to win a Fields Medal, which is awarded every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40. She is only the third woman to receive the prize. The 2026 recipients also included Yu Deng, a former Courant instructor now at the University of Chicago. Wan