Jonathan Beard received a BS (Biology) and BA (International Studies) in 2005 from the Louisiana State University, MS (Bioinformatics) in 2010 from The Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Jonathan served as a U.S. Army Officer from 2005 through July 2010 where he served in roles ranging from medical administrator, to Aide-de-Camp, to acting director of the medical informatics department for the U.S. Army in Europe. Jonathan is currently a computer architecture researcher focusing on next generation architectures for Big Data beyond exascale. Jonathan also has served as a technical advisor to many start-up companies, and has given talks ranging from performance modeling, to C++, to debating exascale memory architectures at Supercomputing. Jonathan's research interests also include online modeling of stream/data-flow parallel systems, streaming architectures, compute near data, accelerators for sparse compute, massively parallel processing, and self-sustaining bio-molecular machines.