1. Richard Cook
3814 California Way, Livermore, CA, 94550
(925) 452-7424
wealthychef@gmail.com
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Objective: Combine interest in deep neural networks, years of experience in scientific visualization and high performance
computing (HPC), training as a chemical engineer, and skills in communication, leadership and collaboration to advance
your company’s business interests.
Languages: C, C++, Python, Unix shell programming, CUDA, Qt, SQLite, HTML5, CSS3, Fortran, perl, javascript, Korean,
Thai
Tools & Technologies: Machine learning, CUDA, OpenACC, HPC, VTK, SVN, OOP, BOOST, STL, git, Unix, pthreads,
OpenGL, jQuery, JSON, VisIt, EnSight, Paraview, Totalview, Blender, ImageMagick, FFMpeg, linux, Macintosh, Windows,
iOS
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WORK HISTORY
Computer scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
June 2001 - present
— Technical support with customers by telephone, telepresence, and personal visits to creatively understand their
business problems and provide solutions
— Maintained government Q level security clearance working in highly secure facility
— Used compression and storage technologies to manage large data sets across complex network topology
— Worked with big data
— Enable science teams to visualize, quantify and better understand and communicate their research.
— Created paraDIS_lib, analyzeParaDIS, and custom paraDIS VisIt plugin toolset and parallel data format.
— Created web application to track and maintain animations on cluster using jQuery UI, C++ and python.
— Created, added features and continue to maintain and supoprt parallel EnSight and VisIt Miranda plugins.
— Created earthquake animation with VisIt and python for Academy of Sciences movie, played at San Francisco
Planetarium and other national locations.
— Created dozens of other animations for scientists all over LLNL for internal and external audiences, using par-
aview, VisIt, EnSight, blender, python, ImageMagick and a variety of other tools and techniques.
— Created, maintain, support, document and install 50 Debian packages in Livermore Computing build system.
— Implemented tracking and reporting of software usage using sqlite and python to enable better management.
— Completely refactored blockbuster movie player code into C++, added features and fixed bugs, moved to source-
forge git repository, added documentation, testing and bug reporting.
— Created Sidecar, augmented SMTools, SM movie metadata system and EnSight Launcher batch control system.
— Organized various onsite training and visits for tool vendors to work with LLNL users.
— Provide assistance to scientists in using visualization software on massively parallel compute clusters.
— Support and consult others regarding the practical use of GPGPUs at our laboratory.
— Trained in CUDA and OpenACC programming and familiar with OpenMP and MPI constructs and ideas.
Masters student, University of California Davis, Davis and LLNL, CA
Nov. 1998 - March 2001
— Parallelized a high accuracy volume renderer for Master’s Thesis project using pthreads. Brief computer security
lab involvement deepened understanding of institutional vulnerabilities. User interface project developed concern
for user experience when developing my software.
Chemical engineer, Chevron Research and Technology Center, Richmond, CA
August 1996 - Aug. 1998
— Designed, analyzed and troubleshot oil refinery systems and components.
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EDUCATION
University of California, Davis
Masters in Computer Science and Engineering received March 2001, GPA 3.78/4.00
Thesis: Parallelizing and Implementing an Exact Visibility Ordering For The HIAC Volume Renderer, 2001
University of California, Davis
Bachelors in Chemical Engineering received June 1996, GPA 3.67/4.00, top 10% of class, Tau Beta Pi honor society

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TEAMWORK, CUSTOMER SERVICE, AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Missionary “Zone Leader”, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Taejon District, South Korea, 1988-1990
Leadership and personal development with Landmark Education, San Jose and San Francisco, CA, 2007-2013
Worked as a waiter for a number of years, c. 1985.
Experience performing onstage in a cappella, musical theatre and shakespeare.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Korean (2 years immersion), Thai (currently learning)
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PUBLICATIONS
Bennett J, Cook R, Max N, May D, Williams P. Parallelizing a high accuracy hardware-assisted volume ren-
derer for meshes with arbitrary polyhedra. Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data
visualization and graphics. 2001, Pages 101-106
Cook R, Dube E, Lee I, Nau L, Shereda C, Wang F. Survey of novel programming models for parallelizing
applications at exascale. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL-TR-515971, November 17, 2011
Arsenlis A, Rhee M, Hommes G, Cook R, Marian J. A dislocation dynamics study of the transition from ho-
mogeneous to heterogeneous deformation in irradiated body-centered cubic iron. Acta Materiala, Volume
60, Issue 9, May 2012, Pages 3748–3757
Hommes G, Arsenlis A, Bulatov V, Cai W, Cook R, Hiratani M, Oppestrup T, Rhee M, Tang M. ParaDiS on Blue
Gene/L: stepping up to the challenge, Presented at: Supercomputing 2006, Tampa, FL, United States, Nov 11 -
Nov 17, 2006
Cook, R, Max N, Silva C, Williams P. Efficiently Sorting Zoo-Mesh Data Sets. Presented at IEEE 2001 Sympo-
sium on Parallel and Large-Date Visualization and Graphics, San Diego, CA, 10/21/2001–10/26/2001
Max, N, Williams, P, Silva, C, Cook R. Volume rendering for curvilinear and unstructured grids. IEEE Com-
puter Graphics International, 2003. Proceedings, pp 210 - 215
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PRESENTATIONS
Cook R. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site Report. Presentation at Department of Energy Computer
Graphics Forum, 2003
Cook R. Visualizing Dislocation Dynamics: Using the Tera Scale Browser and POVRAY for Data Exploration and
Publication. Presentation at Department of Energy Computer Graphics Forum, 2005
Cook R. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site Report. Presentation at Department of Energy Computer
Graphics Forum, 2009
Cook R. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site Report. Presentation at Department of Energy Computer
Graphics Forum, 2010
Cook R. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site Report. Presentation at Department of Energy Computer
Graphics Forum, 2011
Cook R. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site Report. Presentation at Department of Energy Computer
Graphics Forum, 2012
Cook R. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site Report. Presentation at Department of Energy Computer
Graphics Forum, 2014
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ANIMATIONS — Images and samples available upon request
2004-11 ParaDIS animation “Green Spaghetti”
2008-04 Moono Rhee radiation damage animation
2009-09 Art Mirin Tropical Storms detection and animation
2011-06 Cook Scullard LIFE movie
2012-03 California Academy of Sciences 1906 San Francisco earthquake movie with Artie Rodgers
2012-08 Rodgers Loomis Pitarka Petersson “Far Field” Society of Petroleum Engineers animation
2012-08 Santer Williams Bremer Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change PNAS animation
2013-02 Arben Tarabay Vorobiev Loomis “Near-Far Field Combined” geological movie