Robert Leland
Director, Climate Change Security
Director, Climate Change Security
Biography
As Director of the Climate Change Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories, Robert Leland leads climate strategy development across the Labs; directs the Earth Sciences Research Foundation; and oversees laboratory and field work in New Mexico, Texas, and Alaska. The Center includes Sandia’s Renewable Energy and Earth Sciences research groups. Rob also serves as Program Area Director for the Renewable and Fossil Energy Program within Sandia’s Energy and Homeland Security Portfolio, and lead for Office of Science programs in climate and geosciences.
Rob joined Sandia in 1990 as a high-performance computing researcher. He coauthored Chaco, a software toolkit widely used to optimize supercomputer performance. In 1995, Rob served as a White House Fellow in the Treasury Department, helping the Internal Revenue Service revamp a multibillion-dollar information technology modernization effort affecting all taxpayers.
Rob’s management positions at Sandia included Director of Computing Research, Director of Computing and Network Services, and Director of Climate Security. He advanced capabilities critical to Sandia’s nuclear deterrence mission, led development of the Labs’ strategy to provide national-level thought leadership in cybersecurity, co-led the proposal to recapitalize Sandia’s trusted microelectronics fabrication capability, and initiated the Labs’ program to address the national security implications of climate change. In 2014, Rob worked at the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy leading development of the National Strategic Computing Initiative to sustain U.S. leadership in supercomputing.
Rob then served as Sandia’s Vice President for Science and Technology and Chief Technology Officer. He led the Labs’ research organization, overseeing research strategy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, public and private research partnerships, tech transfer, and research compliance.
In 2017, Rob entered the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as Associate Lab Director for Scientific Computing and Energy Analysis and focused on accelerating the transformation of the nation’s energy infrastructure through systems analysis and advanced computing. Rob returned to Sandia in 2021.
Rob has a PhD in applied mathematics from Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University.
Publications
Robert Leland, Robert Leland, Robert Leland, (2017). FY16 Strategic Themes White Paper https://doi.org/10.2172/1346902 Publication ID: 55276
Robert Leland, Robert Leland, Robert Leland, Robert Leland, (2017). FY16 Strategic Themes https://doi.org/10.2172/1346903 Publication ID: 55277
Robert Leland, Robert Leland, Robert Leland, (2017). FY17 Strategic Themes https://doi.org/10.2172/1346904 Publication ID: 55278
Robert Leland, (2016). Performance, Efficiency, and Effectiveness of Supercomputers https://doi.org/10.2172/1505370 Publication ID: 48325
Robert Leland, (2016). Increasing Coherence Between Simulation and Data Analytics https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1406858 Publication ID: 47383
Robert Leland, (2016). Historical Impact of Government Investment in High Performance Computing https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1401950 Publication ID: 47229
Robert Leland, (2016). Historical Impact of Government Investment in High Performance Computing https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1404817 Publication ID: 47272
Robert Leland, (2016). Large-Scale Data Analytics and Its Relationship to Simulation https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1398859 Publication ID: 52664
Robert Leland, (2016). Large-Scale Data Analytics and Its Relationship to Simulation https://doi.org/10.2172/1562626 Publication ID: 52531
Robert Leland, Richard Murphy, Bruce Hendrickson, Katherine Yelick, John Johnson, Jonathan Berry, (2016). Large-Scale Data Analytics and Its Relationship to Simulation https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1390678 Publication ID: 52124
Robert Leland, (2016). Historical Impact of Government Investment in High Performance Computing Research and Development https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1390739 Publication ID: 52137
Robert Leland, (2016). Sandia Overview and Perspective on the Academic Alliance https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1514448 Publication ID: 49547
Robert Leland, Mahesh Rajan, Michael Heroux, (2016). Performance Efficiency and Effectivness of Supercomputers https://doi.org/10.2172/1561471 Publication ID: 49559
Julie Hall, Robert Leland, (2016). Chief Technology Officer Update https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1514389 Publication ID: 48727
Robert Leland, (2016). SNL Overview https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1514395 Publication ID: 48807
Julie Hall, Robert Leland, (2016). Chief Technology Officer Update https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1514402 Publication ID: 48884
John Shalf, Robert Leland, (2015). Computing beyond Moore’s Law Computer https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2015.374 Publication ID: 45612
Sylvia Walter, Julie Hall, Robert Leland, (2015). Sandia National Laboratories Research Effort and Model Based Design https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1331920 Publication ID: 46522
Robert Leland, Bruce Hendrickson, (2015). Advances in Domain Mapping of Massively Parallel Scientific Computations https://doi.org/10.2172/1331498 Publication ID: 45991
Robert Leland, Ken Bishop, S. Naqvi, John McNeil, Richard Krukar, Paulo Franco, (2015). First Principle Simulation of Diffraction based Metrology Techniques https://doi.org/10.2172/1227984 Publication ID: 46024
Robert Leland, Bruce Hendrickson, (2015). An Empirical Study of Static Load Balancing Algorithms https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1263981 Publication ID: 44396
Robert Leland, J.S. Rollett, (2015). Parallel solution of partial differential equations by extrapolation methods https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1170407 Publication ID: 41543
Bruce Hendrickson, Robert Leland, (2014). Graphs and HPC in the ’90s: A Distant Mirror or Merely Distant? https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1315147 Publication ID: 39554
Robert Leland, (2013). Computing Cognition and National Security https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1064199 Publication ID: 32240
Robert Leland, (2012). LelandNMSP.07 https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1141622 Publication ID: 7333
Robert Leland, Ray Finley, (2012). Climate change impacts through water shortages across the United States : how policy and technology share a role in offering solutions https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1044947 Publication ID: 27908
Robert Leland, Ray Finley, (2012). Copy of Climate Change impacts through water shortages across the United States https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1293981 Publication ID: 27961
Robert Leland, (2012). Computing Breakthroughs https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1062795 Publication ID: 26001
Robert Leland, (2011). Sandia National Laboratories: An Overview https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1143433 Publication ID: 24134
Robert Leland, (2011). Sandia’s Large Scale Computation and Simulation Capabilities https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1666306 Publication ID: 23027
Robert Leland, (2011). Climate Change Technology and Global Security https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1106569 Publication ID: 22721
Robert Leland, (2011). Climate Change Technology and Global Security https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1106345 Publication ID: 22578
Robert Leland, (2010). Sandia’s Computer and Information Sciences – An Overview for the External Review Panel https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1678915 Publication ID: 18457
Robert Leland, (2008). Trouble at the source : water, the environment and international security https://www.osti.gov/biblio/966245 Publication ID: 15060
Courtenay Vaughan, Douglas Doerfler, Robert Leland, (2008). Investigating the balance between capacity and capability workloads across large scale computing platforms https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1145679 Publication ID: 13413
Robert Leland, (2007). JOWOG34 Sandia Site Report https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1148113 Publication ID: 10446
Robert Leland, (2006). Carpe Computem: The transformation of engineering and science through petascale computing https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1264050 Publication ID: 8443
Ronald Brightwell, William Camp, Benjamin Cole, Erik Debenedictis, Robert Leland, James Tomkins, Arthur Maccabe, (2005). Architectural specification for massively parallel computers: An experience and measurement-based approach Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience https://www.osti.gov/biblio/917124 Publication ID: 1833
Robert Leland, William Camp, (2004). Validating DOE’s Office of Science "capability" computing needs https://doi.org/10.2172/919110 Publication ID: 3249
Robert Leland, (2004). Red storm architecture and applications https://www.osti.gov/biblio/957266 Publication ID: 3165
Robert Leland, Robert Leland, (2003). Dual mode use requirements analysis for the institutional cluster https://doi.org/10.2172/918226 Publication ID: 2562
Robert Leland, (2000). Comparative Study of Hexahedral and Tetrahedral Elements for Non-linear Structural Analysis https://doi.org/10.2172/1331497 Publication ID: 45990
Robert Leland, (1985). Temperature Induced Convection in a Square Cavity https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1177370 Publication ID: 42622
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