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Dr Nick Brown is a Senior Research Fellow at EPCC, the University of Edinburgh. His main interest is in the role that novel hardware can play in future supercomputers, and is specifically motivated by the grand-challenge of how we can ensure scientific programmers are able to effectively exploit such technologies without extensive hardware/architecture expertise. Combining novel algorithmic techniques for new hardware, programming language & library design, and compilers, he has over 80 peer reviewed publications and has worked on a number of large scale parallel codes including developing the Met Office's high resolution atmospheric model. He leads EPCC's RISC-V testbed, which is funded by the UK ExCALIBUR exascale program and aims to provide access to this technology for scientific software developers, and has lead numerous other UK and European projects and work-packages. He is course organizer of two MSc modules and also supervises MSc and PhD students.