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Global Young Scientists Summit

Jack Dongarra

Meet Professor Jack Dongarra, 2026 GYSS speaker and Turing Award winner, whose work in numerical algorithms and parallel computing has shaped modern high-performance computing.

Last updated 3 August 2026
Smiling older man with white beard in a blue sweater, labeled Jack Dongarra, Turing Award 2021.

Professor Jack Dongarra specialises in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced computer architectures, programming methodology and tools for parallel computers. He holds appointments at the University of Manchester and the University of Tennessee.

In 2022 he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and software that have driven decades of extraordinary progress in computing performance and applications. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE and SIAM; a foreign member of the British Royal Society; and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.