Fabrizio Petrini is a laboratory fellow in the Applied Computer Science Group in the Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL). Before his appointment at PNL, he was a member of the technical staff of the CCS3 group of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a research fellow of the Computing Laboratory of the Oxford University (UK), a postdoctoral researcher of the University of California at Berkeley, and a member of the technical staff of the Hewlett Packard Laboratories.

His research interests include various aspects of supercomputers, including high performance interconnection networks and network interfaces, fault-tolerance, job scheduling algorithms, parallel architectures, operating systems and parallel programming languages. He received numerous awards from the Department of Energy (DOE) for contributions to supercomputing projects, and from other organizations for scientific publications.