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Tom Deakin is a Senior Research Associate in the High Performance Computing Research Group at the University of Bristol, where he works on performance portability of massively parallel High Performance simulation codes. Tom is the Chair of the Khronos SYCL Advisory Panel and has been a member of the SYCL Working Group since 2019. Tom completed his PhD in Leveraging Many-Core Technology for Deterministic Neutral Particle Transport at Extreme Scale in 2018, and has since continued working on unstructured mesh transport and performance portability on HPC architectures. Tom has been involved in teaching Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing at the University of Bristol and given tutorials on open standard parallel programming models at international conferences.