Craig Ulmer is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Computation & Analysis for National Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. His research focuses on adapting new hardware and software technologies to solve data-intensive problems more efficiently. During his 20 years of service at Sandia, he has worked with the scientific computing, nonproliferation, and cybersecurity mission spaces and led efforts to integrate SmartNICs, GPUs, NVMe, and FPGAs into production workflows. Prior to joining Sandia, Craig received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology for his work in low-level communication software for resource-rich cluster computers.