Presenter

Sunita Chandrasekaran is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware, USA. She is also a co-director of the AI Center of Excellence at UD. She received her Ph.D. on Tools and Algorithms for High-Level Algorithm Mapping to FPGAs from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research spans high performance computing, exascale computing, parallel programming, compilers, benchmarking, machine learning and interdisciplinary science.
Her projects include ECP SOLLVE focusing on the LLVM open source eco-system, ORNL’s CAAR scaling PIConGPU on supercomputers enabling newer science, building validation and verification testsuite projects while exploring using LLMs for the same, accelerating solar and bio physics applications, and using ML/AI for drug discovery. She serves on the board of directors of the OpenACC organization and is also the user representative chair for OpenACC. She co-edited a textbook on OpenACC, published in 2017. She is an IEEE & ACM senior member and a recipient of the 2016 IEEE-CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in HPC. She has held various leadership positions in HPC conferences and workshops over the past several years