Michela Taufer

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Michela Taufer
Born (1971-04-23) 23 April 1971 (age 53)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich)
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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]
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Website https://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.

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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.

Recognition

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. [11] In 2023, Taufer was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Peckham, Oliver (18 April 2019). "Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Michela Taufer". HPCwire. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  2. 1 2 Estrada, Trilce; Taufer, Michela; Reed, Kevin (18 May 2009). "Modeling Job Lifespan Delays in Volunteer Computing Projects". 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid. CCGRID '09. USA: IEEE Computer Society. pp. 331–338. doi:10.1109/CCGRID.2009.69. ISBN   978-0-7695-3622-4.
  3. 1 2 "Computer scientist wins NSF grant | UDaily". www.udel.edu. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  4. 1 2 Stodden, Victoria; McNutt, Marcia; Bailey, David H.; Deelman, Ewa; Gil, Yolanda; Hanson, Brooks; Heroux, Michael A.; Ioannidis, John P.A.; Taufer, Michela (9 December 2016). "Enhancing reproducibility for computational methods". Science. 354 (6317): 1240–1241. doi:10.1126/science.aah6168. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   27940837.
  5. ↑ R&D100 Award Winners, by R&D100 Awards; published 2021
  6. ↑ IBM Faculty awards Recipients, by IBM; published 6 February 2019; retrieved 26 April 2020
  7. 1 2 "ACM's Distinguished Members Cited for Advances in Computing that Will Yield Real World Impact". www.acm.org. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  8. ↑ ACM-W – Supporting, Celebrating, and Advocating for Women in Computing; published 24 August 2014; retrieved 26 April 2020
  9. 1 2 3 4 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". Eecs.utk.edu. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  11. 1 2 "Dr. Michela Taufer, research profile – personal details (GCLab)" . 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. ↑ Taufer, Michela; Mohr, Bernd; Kunkel, Julian M. (5 October 2016). High Performance Computing: ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops, ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, Frankfurt, Germany, June 19–23, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. ISBN   978-3-319-46079-6.
  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. ↑ Taufer, M.; Anderson, D.; Cicotti, P.; Brooks, C.L. (2005). "Homogeneous Redundancy: A Technique to Ensure Integrity of Molecular Simulation Results Using Public Computing". 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. pp. 119a. doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2005.247. ISBN   0-7695-2312-9. S2CID   7066121.
  16. ↑ "2023 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
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