startdate: "2020-06-30"

time: "03:00 pm - 04:15 pm EDT"

type: Online Panel Discussion

series:

- "Strategies for Working Remotely"

activities:

- "IDEAS-ECP"

link-id: panel004

panelists:

- name: Helen Cademartori

affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

bio: "Helen Cademartori is the Deputy of Operations for the Computing Sciences Area, and the Computational Research Division. She has held similar positions in Biosciences and the IT Division during her 13 year tenure at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Labs). In her current role she oversees all business and operational aspects of operations including Human Resources, finance, travel, conferences and procurement, proposal development, space management and environmental health and safety. She is also responsible for strategic planning for new initiatives and infrastructure upgrades."

- name: Marcey Kelley

affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

bio: "Marcey Kelley is the Computing Workforce and Scholar Program Manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). She hires approximately 200 students each year and worked with an LLNL team to develop a remote scholar program for 2020. This program was developed in just 6 weeks and will onboard 500 students from across the U.S."

- name: Jay Lofstead

affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories

github-id: gflofst

bio: "Jay Lofstead is is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Scalable System Software department of the Center for Computing Research in Albuquerque, NM. His work focuses on infrastructure to support all varieties of simulation, scientific, and engineering workflows with a strong emphasis on IO, middleware, storage, transactions, operating system features to support workflows, containers, software engineering and reproducibility. He is co-founder of the IO-500 storage list. He also works extensively to support various student mentoring and diversity programs at several venues each year including outreach to both high school and college students. Jay graduated with a BS, MS, and PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and was a recipient of a 2013 R&D 100 award for his work on the ADIOS IO library."

- name: Bethany (Beth) Mccormick

affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

bio: "Bethany (Beth) Mccormick is currently the director of strategic workforce development for the Engineering Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Since joining LLNL in 2006, Beth has become known as a leader in STEM education and career development throughout the Bay Area and the country. Beth is responsible for Engineering’s student programs, university relationships, employee engagement and diversity and inclusion programs. Beth recently helped lead the transition of LLNL’s summer internship program to a virtual program which included teaching mentors how to manage remotely."

- name: Raj Sankaran

affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory

github-id: rajeshxsankaran

bio: "Raj Sankaran is a member of the technical staff at Argonne National Laboratory. Through his research pursuits through Argonne and Northwestern University, Raj collaborates closely with Environmental, Urban, High-Performance Computing and Weather/Climate researchers. Raj co-leads the Waggle Edge-Computing research platform and over the past 9 years, he has supervised/co-supervised over 50 graduate, undergraduate and high-school students through summer internships and graduate study programs. This year, the Waggle team has over half a dozen graduate, undergraduate, and high-school students across various programs (Research Aide, REU, SULI, and Student Visitor) participating in remote internships on both software based research projects and also projects involving physical hardware and sensors."

moderators:

- name: Ashley Barker

affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

bio: " Ashley Barker is the Section Head for Operations at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) located at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). The Operations Section is responsible for facilitating access to OLCF resources, providing training, documentation, and technical support to users, collecting and reporting on user facility data, and acquainting the public with the work conducted at the OLCF through scientific highlights. The OLCF supports more than 1,200 users and 250 projects annually from a wide spectrum of science domains. Ashley served as the National Climate Research Center (NCRC) Project Director from 2014-2016. The NCRC project represents a partnership between NOAA and DOE and through this partnership, the NCRC team has delivered multiple computer systems to NOAA, allowing the agency to advance its climate modeling and improve our understanding of climate variability and change. Ashley is also currently involved in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for training and productivity. "

- name: Rebecca Hartman-Baker

affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

github-id: hartmanbaker

bio: " Rebecca Hartman-Baker leads the User Engagement Group at NERSC, where she is responsible for engagement with the NERSC user community to increase user productivity via advocacy, support, training, and the provisioning of usable computing environments. She worked as a postdoc and then as a scientific computing liaison in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, and a senior supercomputing applications specialist at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia before joining NERSC in 2015. She has mentored many students in her career, hosting summer interns ranging from high school students to graduate students. She is also a supporter of student cluster competitions; Rebecca trained two Australian teams and two all-female NERSC teams for the competitions, and chaired the Student Cluster Competition at SC19. "

- name: Elaine Raybourn

affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories

github-id: elaineraybourn

bio: " Elaine M. Raybourn is a social scientist in the Statistics and Human Systems Group (Applied Cognitive Science) at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research focuses on virtual teams, methods for software productivity, immersive virtual environments, scientific visualization, and transmedia learning. She was the SC21 Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase Chair. Elaine has worked remotely for a combined total of 15 years while at Sandia National Laboratories: from the UK as a guest researcher at British Telecom; Germany (Fraunhofer FIT) and France (INRIA) as a Fellow of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), and most recently as Sandia’s Institutional PI for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software (IDEAS) productivity project. Elaine leads PSIP and the ECP panel series Strategies for Working Remotely. "