William Humphrey, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President

Dr. William Humphrey has been designing and building large-scale parallel and distributed applications for over 25 years, in both scientific and financial industry settings. Since joining Numerix in 2003, he has led development teams for many of the Numerix valuation and risk products, focusing on infrastructure design, risk analysis features and large-scale parallel computation capabilities.  In recent years, Dr. Humphrey headed up the Numerix Architecture group, responsible for designing and coordinating the overall architecture strategy for the Numerix software platform.  Most recently, in 2021 he took on the role of Chief Technology Officer and now oversees the departments responsible for engineering and development of Numerix applications, including its flagship SaaS risk application, Oneview.

Prior to joining Numerix, Dr. Humphrey developed general cluster management and server deployment software for Turbolinux, and before that was a Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a founding member of a team creating a general purpose, scientific parallel application framework used within several key projects.  Dr. Humphrey holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has published over 10 scientific journal articles and book chapters in his career.