John Bent is currently a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He has researched, designed, and built storage and I/O systems all throughout his multi-decade career. John is bilingual in English and Palauan, is the author of 37 academic peer-reviewed articles and over 100 USPTO patents, and has a google scholar reported h-index of 23. John’s favorite place to be is in a boat at dusk heading out to the reef with a speargun in hand and a betelnut in mouth.