Presenter

Dr. Michela Taufer, an AAAS Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist, holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High-Performance Computing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She earned her B.S. in Computer Engineering (University of Padova, Italy) and Ph.D. in Computer Science (ETH Zurich, Switzerland). A former postdoctoral fellow at UCSD and TSRI, Dr. Taufer is dedicated to multidisciplinary research, connecting computational and experimental sciences. Her work focuses on designing HPC, cloud, and volunteer computing solutions, applying AI/ML to scientific applications, and advancing algorithms and workflows with a solid commitment to reproducibility and transparency in research.