Presenter

Rebecca Hartman-Baker is the acting leader of the User Engagement Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a computational scientist with expertise in the development of scalable parallel algorithms for the petascale and beyond. Her career has taken her to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she worked on the R&D100-award winning team developing MADNESS and as a scientific computing liaison in the Oak Ridge leadership computing facility; the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia, where she coached two teams to the Student Cluster Competition at the annual Supercomputing conference and led the decision-making process for determining the architecture of the petascale supercomputer; and NERSC, where she is responsible for NERSC’s engagement with the user community to increase user productivity via advocacy, support, training, and the provisioning of usable computing environments. Rebecca earned a PhD in Computer Science, with a certificate in Computational Science and Engineering, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.