Biography:Michela Taufer

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Michela Taufer
Born (1971-04-23) 23 April 1971 (age 53)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich)
Known for
Awards
  • R&D100 Award in the Software/Service Category (2021)[5]
  • IEEE Senior Member (2020)[1]
  • IBM Faculty Award (2019, 2021)[6]
  • ACM Distinguished Scientist (2015)[7]
  • ACM Senior Member (2014)[8]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
  • The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Academic advisors
  • Thomas M. Stricker
  • Daniel A. Reed
Websitehttps://globalcomputing.group/about.html

Michela Taufer (born 23 April 1971)[9] is an Italian-American computer scientist and holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High Performance Computing within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.[10] She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist[7] and an IEEE Senior Member.[1] In 2021, together with a team al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she earned a R&D 100 Award for the Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.

Education

Taufer attended the University of Padua where she obtained a Laurea in Computer Engineering in 1996. She later went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) in 2002.[9] The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) was titled, Inverting Middleware: Performance Analysis of Layered Application Codes in High Performance Distributed Computing, and was supervised by Thomas M. Stricker and Daniel A. Reed.[9]

Research

Her current research interests[11] include high performance computing,[12] scientific applications, and their programmability on multi-core and many-core platforms.[13] She applies advances in computational and algorithmic solutions for high-performance computing technologies (i.e., volunteer computing, accelerators and GPUs, and in situ analytics workflows)[14] to multi-disciplinary fields including molecular dynamics,[15] ecoinformatics, seismology, and biology.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Michela Taufer, by HPCwire Editorial Team, in HPCwire; published 18 April 2019; retrieved 26 April 2020
  2. 2.0 2.1 T. Estrada, M.Taufer, and K. Reed, "Modeling Job Lifespan Delays in Volunteer Computing Projects", " CCGRID '09: Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid"; pp. 331-338 (2009)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Julie Stewart, "Computer Scientist Wins NSF Grant", in UDaily; published 11 December 2017; retrieved 26 April 2020
  4. 4.0 4.1 V. Stodden, M. McNutt, D.H. Bailey, E. Deelman, Y. Gil, B. Hanson, M.A. Heroux, J.P.A. Ioannidis, and M. Taufer, "Enhancing reproducibility for computational methods", Science; 354(6317), pp. 1240-1241 (2016)
  5. R&D100 Award Receipients, by R&D100 Awards; published 2021
  6. IBM Faculty awards Recipients, by IBM; published 6 February 2019; retrieved 26 April 2020
  7. 7.0 7.1 ACM's Distinguished Members Cited for Advances in Computing that Will Yield Real World Impact, by Jim Ormond; published 19 November 2015; retrieved 26 April 2020
  8. ACM-W – Supporting, Celebrating, and Advocating for Women in Computing; published 24 August 2014; retrieved 26 April 2020
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Michela Taufer. (2002) Inverting Middleware: Performance Analysis of Layered Application Codes in High Performance Distributed Computing(PhD). ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich); retrieved 26 April 2020
  10. "Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville". http://www.eecs.utk.edu/. Retrieved 26 April 2020. 
  11. "Dr. Michela Taufer, research profile – personal details (GCLab)". https://globalcomputing.group/about.html. Retrieved 27 April 2020. 
  12. M. Taufer, C. An, A. Kerstens, and C.L. Brooks III, "Predictor@Home: A Protein Structure Prediction Supercomputer' Based on Global Computing", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,; 17(8), pp. 786-796 (2006)
  13. M. Taufer, B. Mohr, and J. M. Kunkel (2016). "High Performance Computing: ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops, ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, June 19–23, 2016, Revised Selected Papers", Springer, Frankfurt, Germany; ISBN: 9783319460796.
  14. M. Taufer, O. Padron, P Saponaro, and S. Patel, "Improving numerical reproducibility and stability in large-scale numerical simulations on GPUs", 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing (IPDPS), Atlanta, GA; pp. 1-9 (2010)
  15. M. Taufer, D.P. Anderson, P. Cicotti, and C.L. Brooks, "Homogeneous Redundancy: a Technique to Ensure Integrity of Molecular Simulation Results Using Public Computing", 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium; 9, pp. - (2005)