Michela Taufer

Michela Taufer (born 23 April 1971)^[9] is an Italian-American computer scientist and holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High Performance Computing within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.^[10] She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist^[7] and an IEEE Senior Member.^[1] In 2021, together with a team al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she earned a R&D 100 Award for the Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.

Michela Taufer
Born	(1971-04-23) 23 April 1971 (age 54)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich)
Known for	High performance computing[1] Volunteer computing[2] Data analysis[3] Reproducibility[4]
Awards	R&D100 Award in the Software/Service Category (2021)[5] IEEE Senior Member (2020)[1] IBM Faculty Award (2019, 2021)[6] ACM Distinguished Scientist (2015)[7] ACM Senior Member (2014)[8]
Scientific career
Fields	High performance computing[1] Volunteer computing[2] Data analysis[3] Molecular dynamics Computational science[9] Reproducibility[4]
Institutions	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Academic advisors	Thomas M. Stricker Daniel A. Reed
Website	https://globalcomputing.group/about.html

Education

Taufer attended the University of Padua where she obtained a Laurea in Computer Engineering in 1996. She later went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) in 2002.^[9] The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) was titled, Inverting Middleware: Performance Analysis of Layered Application Codes in High Performance Distributed Computing, and was supervised by Thomas M. Stricker and Daniel A. Reed.^[9]

Research

Her current research interests^[11] include high performance computing,^[12] scientific applications, and their programmability on multi-core and many-core platforms.^[13] She applies advances in computational and algorithmic solutions for high-performance computing technologies (i.e., volunteer computing, accelerators and GPUs, and in situ analytics workflows)^[14] to multi-disciplinary fields including molecular dynamics,^[15] ecoinformatics, seismology, and biology.

Recognition

In 2021, together with a team al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she earned a R&D 100 Award for the Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.^[11] In 2023, Taufer was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[16]

See also

• Stefano Valore
• Silvio Micali