Dr. Starovoytov earned his Ph.D. in Computational Materials Science at the University of Utah. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Big Data Analytics, and Quantum Computing. His primary research work is focused on ab initio and molecular dynamics simulations of condensed state matter, developing new computational algorithms for large-scale data processing. He has several publications in the computational field. Dr. Starovoytov has a strong commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level.