Russell Gayle
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Russell Gayle, a Texas native, earned bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. He moved on to graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s in 2006 and a doctorate in 2010, both in computer science. His research focused on robotics and computer graphics and simulation. Russell’s first exposure to Sandia was as a fellow in the DOE High Performance Computational Fellowship program. He worked in Chicago at the high-frequency trading company Optiver in computing performance and later in big data analytics at Google. Sandia drew him back, and he joined the Interactive Systems, Simulations, and Analysis group. He does projects in areas from data sciences to gaming technologies and says his work at Sandia has been a fun ride. Russell enjoys running, tennis, racquetball, and bouldering, and spending time with his wife and 1-year-old baby.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
