Profile: David R. "Chip" Kent IV received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Texas A&M University in 1999 after just 3 years. During this time, Chip researched the conformational preferences of disubstituted ethanes, the femtosecond chemistry of C4H7+, non-comigrating system peaks in capillary electrophoresis, iterative eigensolvers, and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Following graduation at Texas A&M, Chip began his doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. There he developed new algorithms to efficiently utilize massively parallel computers in quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Chip graduated in March 2003 and was awarded the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize in 2003. While not pursuing academic interests, Chip is a national-level Olympic weightlifter. Over the past four years, Chip has placed in the top 15 in the United States and has been the National Collegiate bronze medalist twice. Additionally, Chip holds all of the New Mexico weightlifting records for his weight class. Chip is currently a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he is working on software and hardware for future generations of supercomputers