VA Women in HPC

Save the Date: VA-WHPC Student Lightning Talks V
2026-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event
On April 22, 2026, VA-WHPC hosted 8 students as they gave 3-minute lightning talks on their research to members of the HPC community from across Virginia. Each presenter had 3 minutes and 1-2 slides to showcase their research, and following each presentation, we had a short Q&A to dive deeper into any questions.We gratefully acknowledge Lenovo for sponsoring the student presentation awards. Thanks to all who attended this fantastic opportunity to explore a diverse range of topics in High-Performance Computing (HPC), and congratulations to the winners: First place: Stephen Tivenan, Virginia Commonwealth UniversitySecond place: Allyson Morris, College of William & Mary

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Presenters

1. Olabisi Bashorun, Student, College of William & Mary Topic: Utilizing Threading for Training ML Models on Biological Data.Volunteer Mentor: Karsten Siller, University of Virginia.2. Bhavya Goyal, Trainee, Centre of Development of Advanced Computing, India Topic: AI vs. Supercomputing: Achieving a 28x Speedup in Climate Modeling.Volunteer Mentor: Kirti Patel, Virginia Tech Alumni3. Allyson Morris, Student, College of William & Mary Topic: Efficient Perceptron Implementation in C for Scalable Classification.Volunteer Mentor: Parastoo Bybordi, Virginia Commonwealth University.4. Supraja Naraharisetty, Graduate Student, George Mason University Topic: Efficient Resource Utilization Analysis and Optimization in HPC Systems using Grafana and FastAPI.Volunteer Mentor: Hadeel Albahar, Virginia Tech & Kuwait University5. Emmanuel Sampson, Student, College of William & Mary Topic: Machine Learning in Atomistic Spin Dynamics.Volunteer Mentor: Tejasri Anuboina, George Mason University.6. Abhinav Sai Tummapudi, Student, George Mason University Topic: GPU-Watch: An Autonomous Node-Level GPU Utilization Enforcement Framework for Slurm Clusters.Volunteer Mentor: Eric Walter, College of William & Mary.7. Stephen Tivenan, Graduate Student, Virginia Commonwealth University Topic: Spatial Jacobian Neural Network.Volunteer Mentor: Lishan Yang, George Mason University.8. Puqi Zhou, Graduate Student, George Mason University Topic: Designing multi-robot ground video sensemaking with public safety professionals.Volunteer Mentor: Mary Saville, University of Virginia.

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