Presenter

Lorena A. Barba has a PhD in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology and BSc/PEng degrees in mechanical engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile. She is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Prof. Barba received the NSF Faculty Early CAREER award (2012), was named CUDA Fellow by NVIDIA Corp. (2012), is an awardee of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) First Grant program (2007). Her research includes computational fluid dynamics, high-performance computing, GPU computing, computational biophysics, computational aerodynamics and animal flight. She advocates open-source software for research and education, software methodologies to improve quality of computational research, and practices for reproducible research.