Dr Tom Deakin is a Senior Lecturer (equiv. Associate Professor) in Advanced Computer Systems and Head of the HPC Research Group at the University of Bristol. Tom researches the performance portability of massively parallel High Performance simulation codes, developing the theory and practice of performance portability, parallel programming languages, and designing and evaluating proxy applications. Tom has contributes to a number of open standard programming models, including SYCL, OpenMP, OpenCL and ISO C++. He is Chair of the Khronos SYCL Working Group, and a member of the ISO WG21 C++ Standards Committee. Along with Tim Mattson, he published a book on “Programming Your GPU with OpenMP” with MIT Press in 2023.