Now

What Mike Heroux is doing since retiring from Sandia National Laboratories (2024) and St. John's University (2026).

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 (DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research) — Co-lead, with Lois Curfman McInnes, stewarding scientific software ecosystems for HPC-AI applications
  • E4S — presently leading the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack project

Ongoing interests

  • Software ecosystem stewardship and sustainability — the practices behind E4S, Trilinos, and the Better Scientific Software project
  • Research software science, and productivity/reproducibility practices for scientific software teams (IDEAS Project)
  • Generative AI in research and technical education — see Writing

For the full professional history, see the biography; for past projects, see Research & legacy projects.