Presenter

Ying Zhang has MS degrees in Computer Science and Remote Sensing. She is currently the IT Manager for AI and Research Software Engineering at Research Computing, a department in Information Technology at University of Florida. She and her team work with faculty research groups and provide consultations in AI research and software development in all research disciplines. The team also design and deliver AI training courses at different competency levels for UF and its partner institutions. She also assists researchers in running high performance computing (HPC) applications with high efficiency on HiPerGator - UF’s supercomputing clusters. Prior to joining UF, she worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Renaissance Computing Institute as a Senior Research Programmer. She developed software tools for performance analysis, tuning, and optimization for parallel applications. She conducted performance simulations for HPC applications in various scientific disciplines on supercomputing clusters at major DOE laboratories.