Dr. Ron Caplan is a computational scientist at Predictive Science Inc. (PSI) with over fifteen years of experience in applying computational methods in applied mathematics and physics. His main research interests are in developing and optimizing numerical methods for simulating physics-based models and their implementations in parallel high performance computing environments including GPU accelerators. His research currently focuses on the continued development and optimization of PSI's thermodynamic magnetohydrodynamic code (MAS) used to study the solar corona and heliosphere, as well as providing computational solutions for additional projects including data analysis of solar images.