Keith Gray is the VP for Research Computing at TotalEnergies. Prior to joining TotalEnergies, Keith was an HPC Advisor at Intel and the Director of HPC and Technical Computing at bp, leading the High Performance Computing team for 22 years. The team grew computing power by over 200,000 times in this period, designed and constructed the bp Center for High Performance Computing, and enabled significant Seismic Imaging research breakthroughs.

He has over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. After graduating from Virginia Tech, Keith started his career as a seismic processing geophysicist at Western Geophysical.

Keith was recognized by HPCWire’s “People to Watch” in 2006. He is on the Organizing Committee for the Energy HPC Conference by the Rice Ken Kennedy Institute and the Steering Committee for the HPC User Forum.