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(University of Tennessee)
Michela Taufer is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High Performance Computing in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK). She earned her undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova (Italy) and her doctoral degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology or ETH (Switzerland). From 2003 to 2004 she was a La Jolla Interfaces in Science Training Program (LJIS) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), where she worked on interdisciplinary projects in computer systems and computational chemistry.
Michela has a long history of interdisciplinary work with scientists. Her research interests include software applications and their advance programmability in heterogeneous computing (i.e., multi-core platforms and GPUs); cloud computing and volunteer computing; and performance analysis, modeling and optimization of multi-scale applications. She has been serving as the principal investigator of several NSF collaborative projects. She also has significant experience in mentoring a diverse population of students on interdisciplinary research. Michela’s training expertise includes efforts to spread high-performance computing participation in undergraduate education and research as well as efforts to increase the interest and participation of diverse populations in interdisciplinary studies.
(Indiana University )
Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Indiana University. President and Chief Scientist, Simultac LLC
Thomas Sterling is a Full Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University (IU) serving as Director of the AI Computing Systems Laboratory at IU’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Since receiving his Ph.D from MIT as a Hertz Fellow in 1984, Dr. Sterling has engaged in applied research in parallel computing system structures, semantics, and operation in industry, government labs, and academia. Professional affiliations have included Harris Corp., IDA Supercomputing Research Center, NASA (GSFC, JPL), Un. of Maryland, Caltech, and LSU. Dr. Sterling is best known as the “father of Beowulf” for his pioneering research in commodity/Linux cluster computing for which he shared the Gordon Bell Prize in 1997. His current research is associated with innovative extreme scale computing through memory-centric non von Neumann architecture concepts to accelerate dynamic graph processing for AI including ML. In 2018, he co-founded the new tech company, Simultac, and serves as its President and Chief Scientist. Dr. Sterling was the recipient of the 2013 Vanguard Award and is a Fellow of the AAAS. He is the co-author of seven books and holds six patents. Most recently, he co-authored the introductory textbook, “High Performance Computing”, published by Morgan-Kaufmann in 2018 which is going into 2nd edition.
(MINTEK)
Quinn is 45 years old and holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, a Masters in Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cape Town. He has worked in the Pyrometallurgy Division at Mintek for the past 23 years. Mintek is a research institute conducting applied research and development to serve the extensive mineral processing and metallurgical industry in South Africa and worldwide.
Quinn’s expertise includes mathematical and computational modelling of complex coupled phenomena in high temperature processes, and in particular the application of high-performance computing and open source modelling software to pyrometallurgy. His current areas of research include magnetohydrodynamic modelling of electric arcs, multiphysics fluid flow problems in furnace tapping and phase separation, combustion modelling for metallurgical processing, and discrete element modelling for particle flow problems. He has also performed extensive work in the characterization of the dynamic behaviour of direct-current plasma arcs using high-speed photography and electrical measurement techniques.
(Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
Prof. Albert Lysko is an award-winning engineer, researcher and innovator. He is a Principal Researcher with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa.
Prof. Lysko has worked in both academia and industry, in both Europe and Africa. His research focus has covered numerical electromagnetics, smart antennas, dynamic spectrum access and is now shifting into 5G and 6G. While at CSIR, Prof. Lysko’s leading experimental research in television white spaces (TVWS) provided Internet to over 20,000 users in three countries and enabled setting up the South African national TVWS regulation and contributed to TVWS regulations in other African countries and USA. He has authored three patents, a book, two book chapters, and over 100 research papers, popular science and news articles. He holds 3 Best Paper and several professional awards. As a volunteer for the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Prof. Lysko has organised over 100 events and three international conferences. Prof Lysko has numerous IEEE awards for volunteering. Under his leadership, IEEE South Africa received its first global IEEE MGA award. Prof. Lysko is a Fellow of South African Institute of Electrical Engineers.
