Kevin Dean is the HPC Performance and CAE Segment Architect on the HPC Worldwide Customer Engagement Team within the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo. The role consists of leading the HPC performance engineering process and strategy as well as providing CAE application performance support and leading the customer support for the manufacturing vertical. Kevin has 8 years of experience in HPC and AI application performance support at Lenovo plus 12 years of aerodynamic design and computational fluid dynamics experience in the US defense and automotive racing industries. Kevin holds an MS degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida and a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.