Please join us for the next Virginia Women in High Perfomance Computing (VA-WHPC) event:

Real Stories about Using HPC in Research
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, 1 to 2 p.m.
via Zoom - register here

About the event

This month, three graduate students will share their experiences using High-Performance Computing (HPC) in their research. Each speaker will give a 10-minute presentation on how they use HPC, the challenges they’ve faced, and how they developed the necessary skills to effectively utilize these resources. After each presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion.

Meet the presenters

Mahshid Ahmadian is a Ph.D. candidate in System Modeling and Analysis, with a specialization in Statistics and Data Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is also a Virginia Sea Grant graduate fellow, where she integrates the fields of statistics, ecology, and fisheries science. Her research focuses on developing spatiotemporal models designed to analyze fish movement data. She has experience using high-performance computing (HPC) to process large-scale spatial data and implement computationally intensive statistical models.

James Giroux is a PhD candidate working at the intersection of Nuclear Physics and Data Science at William and Mary. His research is focused primarily on applications of generative AI, Computer Vision, and Bayesian Deep Learning for physics event reconstruction.

Karolina Naranjo-Velasco is a PhD candidate in Data Science at the University of Virginia and MSDS '22 graduate. She brings a unique perspective as a Latina attorney specializing in constitutional law. Her research focuses on developing automations using HPC and AI tools for parsing legal documents and training language models to analyze texts. Beyond her technical contributions, she strengthens diversity in data science through conference leadership and mentorship of underrepresented STEM professionals.

This virtual event is jointly hosted by Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, William & Mary, University of Richmond, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Old Dominion University, and the University of Virginia. For more information please visit the event webpage on va-whpc.org  

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eric Walter at ejwalt@wm.edu.

All interested persons are welcome to attend — go ahead and register now. We look forward to seeing you there!