On February 5-7, the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hosted a Computer Science Principal Investigator meeting in Atlanta, Georgia to gather researchers funded by the office. We are delighted to share that the meeting included two Sustainable Research Pathways faculty: Tanzima Islam from Texas State University and Vijayalakshmi Saravanan from University of South Dakota.
Dr. Tanzima Islam first engaged with SRP in 2018, when she was a faculty member at Western Washington University, and was matched with Khaled Ibrahim at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Islam later returned to SRP in 2022, after her move to Texas State University, and was matched with Kerstin Kleese van Dam at Brookhaven National Lab. Dr. Islam received the DOE Early Career Award in 2022 and continued collaboration at BNL in 2023.
Dr. Vijayalakshmi Saravanan attended SHI’s first program in 2015 when she was a graduate student, a workshop designed to help participants prepare a poster submission for the highly competitive Supercomputing conference. She later participated in SHI’s Broader Engagement program and most recently became an SRP faculty mentor in 2022 when she matched with Shinjae Yoo of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Saravanan received a DOE Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) grant in 2023 for her work on “An Efficient Storage-Driven Machine Learning Model for Performance in the Era of Multimodal Scientific Data.”
Sustainable Horizons Institute celebrates how our community plays a part in this exchange of groundbreaking research across diverse projects aligned with ASCR advanced computing. For the sake of scientific synergy, many attendees took advantage of the opportunity to showcase recent achievements and engage in meaningful conversations about the work they are continuing to pursue.
We are happy to share the perspective from a faculty member that we have supported:
Vijayalakshmi Saravanan shares; “I had the opportunity to reconnect with many of our SRP alumni during the event. We engaged in insightful discussions and brainstorming sessions about the future of scientific computing, energy-efficient computing, and the DOE data environment envisioned for 2040. Additionally, I had fruitful conversations with DOE scientists regarding potential future collaborations and ongoing collaborative efforts, as well as valuable discussions about our current work and its potential for publication. During the poster session, I got to brainstorm myself for many aspects of my DOE FAIR funded project. Overall, it was a fantastic experience and I’m grateful to SRP for facilitating these connections with DOE staff and enabling seamless communication with them.”
Through these open doors, SHI continues to empower mentors and faculty, in hopes to continue to play a pivotal role in advancing the frontiers of inclusive and innovative computing science research.