Aaron Barlow is a HPC Software Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he specializes in designing, building, and deploying operational software to support the Oak Ridge Leadership Facility’s HPC ecosystem.
He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from East Tennessee State University in 2020. Before joining ORNL full-time, he interned there year-round for four years, focusing on HPC operational software development. In the summer of 2019, he interned at Bank of America, where he developed a natural language processing model to automate entity recognition and document categorization.
Aaron is also actively involved in his community, demonstrating his commitment through mentoring roles and participation in initiatives like the PEARC Student Volunteer Committee and student programs at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS).
Outside of work, Aaron enjoys volleyball, bouldering, dancing, playing piano, exercising, reading, traveling, and promoting open science.