Presenter

Tabitha K. Samuel, is the Group Lead for the HPC Operations group at the National Institute for Computational Sciences. The group manages all aspects of filesystems, cluster management, networking, security, infrastructure and systems programming for the center. Her responsibilities also include contributing to current and future planning for the center, proposal writing and submission, budget management, and project management. Her research interests are in the areas of grid software, high performance computing system data analysis, and user experience and engagement. Ms. Samuel earned her Masters in Computer Science degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where her research focus was parallel computing for data mining applications.