Presenter

Dr. Jana Thayer is the division director for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Data Systems at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, responsible for data acquisition, data management, and data analysis for the LCLS facility and development of the next generation data system to support the LCLS-II upgrade. She is the principal investigator for the Intelligent Learning for Light Source and Neutron Source User Measurements Including Navigation and Experiment Steering (ILLUMINE) project which facilitates rapid data analysis and autonomous experiment steering capabilities to support cutting-edge research tightly coupling high-throughput experiments, advanced computing architectures, and novel AI/ML algorithms to significantly reduce the time to science at the light and neutron sources. Jana started at SLAC in 2004, working on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and leading the Large Area Telescope Flight Software Team from 2006 to 2009. Jana has a PhD in elementary particle physics from The Ohio State University and has long nurtured an interest in data acquisition systems and high-performance software in the fields of HEP, astrophysics, and photon science.