About John Stone

John Stone is an NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer, with expertise in scientific visualization, high performance ray tracing, and GPU computing. He previously served as the lead developer of VMD, a high-performance tool for preparation, analysis, and visualization of biomolecular simulations used by over 100,000 researchers all over the world. He is a frequent contributor to HPC workshops and software development hackathons for next-generation parallel computers. He was inducted as an NVIDIA CUDA Fellow in 2010. Stone and co-authors were winners of the scientific visualization and data analytics showcases at Supercomputing 2014 and 2019.  In 2015 Mr. Stone joined the Khronos Group Advisory Panel for the Vulkan Graphics API.  Mr. Stone was honored as an IBM Champion for Power in 2017, 2018, and 2019, for innovative thought leadership in the technical community. In 2020, Mr. Stone joined the Khronos working group for ANARI, a new analytic rendering standard for high-fidelity scientific and technical visualization.  

Mr. Stone and co-authors won the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research awarded at Supercomputing 2020, and results of their work were featured in the New York Times.

John graduated from Missouri S&T with a BS degree in Computer Science in 1994, and he completed his MS degree in Computer Science in 1998 and has served on the Computer Science advisory board for Missouri S&T since 2007.