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Mark Taylor specializes in numerical methods for parallel computing
and atmospheric flows. He currently serves as Chief Computational
Scientist for the DOE's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)
project. He led the development of the spectral element based
dynamical core used in E3SM's atmospheric model. Mark received his
Ph.D. from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences in 1992. He joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2004 and
was promoted to Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 2018.
In 2014 he was awarded (with Drs. David Bader and William Collins) The
Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for his work unifying the
Department of Energy's climate modeling research community, enabling
the development of high-resolution fully-coupled climate-system
simulations. In 2023, he led the E3SM team which was awarded
the 2023 Gordon Bell Prize in Climate Modelling for innovative parallel
computing contributions toward solving the global climate crises.