Mathieu Gravey discusses his participation in the Intel® Modern Code Developer Challenge and excitement at winning the Grand Prize of an internship at CERN openlab. During the Challenge, he applied modern code and parallel computing using Intel® Xeon® processors to optimize brain simulation code and improve its performance by an amazing 32,000%. At the internship, Mathieu looks forward to working with the world’s foremost research scientists at the convergence of biology and information systems.