Wes H. Brewer

Wesley Brewer is a Senior Research Scientist and Acting Group Leader of the Workflows and Ecosystem Services (WES) group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). He spent the past three years working in the Analytics and AI Methods at Scale (AAIMS) group on AI for Science and Digital Twins for HPC, leading the development of ExaDigiT digital twin and SICKLE intelligent sampling frameworks. Before joining ORNL, he served five years as a Computational Scientist for the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). Prior to that, he spent eight years teaching computer science in Korea. 

His career began as a graduate research assistant at MIT’s Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory, where he conducted computational and experimental research on hydrofoil cavitation. He went on to work at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (Carderock Division), focusing on experimental analysis and computational modeling of hydrodynamic propulsion systems, and later held a research faculty position in Computational Engineering at Mississippi State University, funded by the Office of Naval Research.

His research spans computational fluid dynamics, digital twins, machine learning for scientific workflows at scale on HPC, data readiness for AI, and data-driven approaches to turbulence modeling. Over the years, he has also consulted on projects in numerical weather simulation, computational genetics, natural language processing, and cloud computing.