Scientific and high-performance computing software.

Mike Heroux worked on software for scientific and high-performance computing, including founding and leading the Trilinos, Kokkos, Mantevo, HPCG, and E4S projects, first at Sandia National Laboratories, and for many of those years also teaching at St. John's University. Since retiring from both, he continues part of that work through a few part-time roles.

Michael A. Heroux

Current roles

ParaTools, Inc.

Senior Research Scientist — R&D in scientific software ecosystems.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Visiting Scholar — R&D in scientific software.

Hyperion Research

HPC-AI Software System Analyst — research and analysis on HPC-AI software systems and futures.

PESO Project

Co-lead, with Lois Curfman McInnes, stewarding scientific software ecosystems for the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.

Recognition

  • 2026 SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Career Prize
  • 2025 HPC Legend (HPCwire, class of 35)
  • 2024 Secretary of Energy Achievement Award (US Exascale Computing Project)
  • Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  • Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Senior Member, IEEE