Presenter

Ioana Banicescu is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU), a Director of the Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing at MSU, and also a Co-Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing. She received the Diploma in Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunications) from Polytechnic University - Bucharest, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from New York University - Polytechnic Institute. Professor Banicescu's research interests include parallel algorithms, scientific computing, scheduling theory, performance analysis, evaluation and prediction. Currently, her research focus is on autonomic computing and performance optimization for problems in computational science. She has given many invited talks at universities, government laboratories, and at various national and international forums in the United States and overseas. She has authored and co-authored more than 100 articles published in journals, books, and conference proceedings.