As chief AI officer, Ray Grout leads NLR's AI strategy and risk management. He chairs the NLR AI Institutional Committee, represents the laboratory in DOE's Genesis Mission, and serves as NLR's point of contact for DOE's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.

With more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and energy systems, Grout's research has spanned fundamental turbulent combustion simulation to machine learning for energy optimization, resulting in 100+ publications with more than 3,000 citations.

Six years directing computational science research at NLR, leading 150+ staff in operating a 45-petaflop high-performance computing facility and multicloud infrastructure
Contributions to DOE's Exascale Computing Project and Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines Program
Postdoctoral appointment with the reacting flow research group at Sandia National Labs in Livermore, California