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Jessica Dagostini, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) Computational and Data Science fellowship.
Dagostini is one of two recipients of this prestigious fellowship, which is highly competitive and awarded after a rigorous merit review. It is intended to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, including women as well as students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the computing field.
The fellowship is awarded at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, a large, interdisciplinary conference where the latest high-performance computing technologies are presented and discussed.
The fellowship recognized Dagostini’s technical achievements and potential for improving the performance of large scientific applications as well as her leadership in the community, especially related to DEI efforts.
Dagostini’s research focuses on high-performance computing graph-related problems. She is working with her co-advisors, Assistant Professors of Computer Science and Engineering Tyler Sorensen and Scott Beamer, to investigate the application of graph algorithms in a DNA mapping application.
The fellowship provides $15,000 annually for study anywhere in the world.