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Tom Sheffler
Solution Architect, Next Generation Sequencing
Former Roche
Tom earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon in Computer Engineering with a focus on parallel computing architectures and prrogramming models. His interest in high-performance computing took him to NASA Ames, and then to Rambus where he worked on accelerated memory interfaces for providing high bandwidth. Following that, he co-founded the cloud video analytics company, Sensr.net, that applied scalable cloud computing to analyzing large streams of video data. He later joined Roche to work on next-generation sequencing and scalable genomics analysis platforms. Throughout his career, Tom has focused on the application of high performance computer systems to real world problems.