Presenter

Elaine M. Raybourn is a social scientist in applied cognitive science at Sandia National Laboratories. She has worked in the UK as a guest researcher at British Telecom; in Germany at Fraunhofer FIT; and in France at INRIA as a Fellow of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). She was the Sandia National Laboratories Institutional PI for Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software (IDEAS-ECP) from 2018 to 2023, and currently supports the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Next Generation Scientific Software Technology (NGSST) stewardship and Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER). Her research focuses on complex socio-technical systems of scientific software teams, collaborative immersive virtual environments, HPC AI/ML data ethics, and the diffusion of innovations to incentivize program modernization and cultural change. Elaine was the SC21 Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase Chair.