Presenter

Alice Koniges is a computer scientist and physicist at Berkeley Lab’s NERSC division. She has a mixed background including application code development in plasma, accelerator and high-energy density physics, turbulence, adaptive mesh refinement and linear solvers. She represents Berkeley on the OpenMP and MPI standards committees, is Berkeley PI on XPRESS XStack project, also in charge of applications. She is associate editor of the International Journal of High Performance Computing, and serves on the program committees for important HPC conferences such as SC, ISC, and IPDPS. She has published more than 100 refereed papers in both applications and parallel computing/programming languages, and a textbook, Industrial Strength Parallel Computing. For the past 19 years she has been giving SC tutorials on programming languages including last year’s two on HPX/C++ standards and portable programming models. Her PhD is from Princeton University in Mathematical Astrophysics, and she also has an M.Sc.Eng.