Presenter

Dr. Mary Thomas is the HPC/CI Advanced Computing Training Lead in the Data-Enabled Scientific Computing Division of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. She is responsible for developing and organizing educational and training materials to support the work of scientists running computational problems on HPC systems, including the SDSC Expanse and Voyager systems. Her research is focused on computational science, parallel programming, advanced computational environments that support high-end scientific applications, and workforce development of the community of people who need to use HPC/CI resources.

Thomas is PI or Co-PI of three NSF CyberTraining grants that focus on: developing cyberinfrastructure professionals who will facilitate researchers to access and use NSF CI resources and services (#2230127, PI); teaching researchers best practices for developing scalable AI/ML applications (#2017767, PI); and developing taxonomies for a federated training materials repository (#2320977, Co-PI).