Presenter

Gabrielle Allen is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Associate Director for Computational Research and Education Programs at the NCSA. At the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), she researched and developed techniques for high performance and grid computing. She led the Cactus Code Project, and had leadership roles in collaborative European projects GridLab and the EU Astrophysics Network. At Louisiana State University Gabrielle led the cyberinfrastucture component of the statewide NSF research infrastructure improvement award "CyberTools", and was involved in a number of large, collaborative projects involving computer science, scientific computing, and the computational sciences, in diverse fields including computational fluid dynamics, numerical relativity, computational chemistry, and computational biology. Gabrielle also served as a Program Director in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington DC where she developed NSF-wide programs in software and computational and data-enabled science.