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Education

• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Arizona, Spring 2020
• B.S. in Computer Science, Colorado State University, Spring 2016
• B.S. in Psychology (“Mind, Brain, Behavior” a.k.a. Neuro-Cognitive), Colorado State University, Spring 2016
• B.S. in Applied Computing Technology (Human Centered Computing), Colorado State University, Spring 2016

Skills

• Capable of developing in multiple programming languages
  • Skilled: Python, Bash
  • Proficient: C, C++, Chapel
  • Former or Casual experience: Java, CUDA, Rust, PHP, JavaScript
• Presentation and education experience
• Experience working in Agile development cycle
• Reversion control with git and GitHub
• Proficient in Linux environment
• Experience with multiple build systems
  • Make, CMake, AutoTools (‘from the ground-up’ experience in all)
• Experience with containers and containerization
  • Docker, Singularity
• Parallel programming
  • Python.Multiprocessing, OpenMP, OpenCL, MPI, CUDA
• Performance analysis and optimizations
  • GProf, valgrind, custom performance timing and analysis tools
• Experience working with compilers, code transformation, and code generation
  • ROSE, LLVM, Clang, custom source-to-source translation tools
  • Domain Specific Language development
• Regex Wizard

Work experience

• September 2020 - Current: Distributed Systems Senior Associate Software Development Engineer
  • Workday
• May 2020 - August 2020: Scientific Analyst 1
  • University of Arizona
    • Computer Science Department
  • Activities and duties included:
    • Conduct performance experiments and analysis of scientific applications
    • Assist in the development and improvement of scientific applications
    • Assist in the development of scientific data-processing infrastructure
  • Supervisor: Michelle Strout Ph.D
• August 2016 - May 2020: Graduate Research Assistant
  • University of Arizona
    • Computer Science Department
  • Activities and duties included:
    • Investigate performance of existing scientific application and propose efficiency changes
    • Plan API changes to provide path for shared-memory parallelization and automated inter-loop optimization
    • Collaborated with interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research team
    • Conducted and published research on methods in inter-loop optimization specified using extensions to OpenMP language
    • Worked with team exploring methods of extracting parallelizable loops in Python applications using dynamic analysis
    • Mentored undergraduate student in benchmark undergraduate honors thesis
  • Supervisor: Michelle Strout Ph.D
• Summer 2018: Software Engineering Intern
  • Cray Incorporated (now part of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise)
    • Chapel Language Team
  • Activities and duties included:
    • Extended Chapel’s compressed sparse-array data structure
    • Explored a developer-friendly refactor to Chapel’s Domain Standard Interface
    • Developed distributed matrix toposorting benchmark exploring distributed work queuing strategies
  • Supervisors: Brad Chamberlain Ph.D. and Benjamin Robbins
• Summer 2015: Software Engineering Intern
  • Cray Incorporated (now part of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise)
    • Chapel Language Team
  • Activities and duties included:
    • Implemented Chapel Linear Algebra Package (LAPack) interface module using custom automated C/Fortran-to-Chapel interface translation tool
    • Developed Chapel programming language tutorial (learnxinyminutes.com/docs/chapel)
  • Supervisors: Brad Chamberlain Ph.D. and Tom MacDonald
• May 2014 - August 2016: Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Colorado State University
    • Computer Science Department
  • Activities and duties included:
    • Conducted and published research on methods of hiding time-tiling loop-optimizations using existing programming language features
    • Conducted performance experiments
  • Supervisors: Michelle Strout Ph.D. and Catherine Olschanowsky Ph.D
• August 2012 - May 2014: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
  • Colorado State University
    • Computer Science Department
  • Activities and duties included:
    • Developing and leading hands-on instructional sessions in computer-lab setting
  • Supervisors: Chris Wilcox Ph.D., Elaine Regelson, and Debbie Bartlett
• January 2012 - August 2012: Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Colorado State University
    • Psychology Department
  • Activities and duties included:
    • Conducting psychological experiments
    • Participating in group research meetings discussing methods and topics in automation in learning
  • Supervisors: Benjamin Clegg Ph.D and Robert Gutzwiller Ph.D

Publications

Parameterized Diamond Tiling for Stencil Computations with Chapel Parallel Iterators

Ian Bertolacci, Catherine Olschanowsky, Ben Harshbarger, Bradford Chamberlain, David Wonnacott, Michelle Strout, "Parameterized Diamond Tiling for Stencil Computations with Chapel Parallel Iterators." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 29th ACM on International Conference on Supercomputing, 2015.

Identifying and Scheduling Loop Chains Using Directives

I. Bertolacci, M. Strout, S. Guzik, J. Riley, C. Olschanowsky, "Identifying and Scheduling Loop Chains Using Directives." In the proceedings of 2016 Third Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives (WACCPD), 2016.

Extending OpenMP to Facilitate Loop Optimization

Ian Bertolacci, Michelle Strout, Bronis Supinski, Thomas Scogland, Eddie Davis, Catherine Olschanowsky, "Extending OpenMP to Facilitate Loop Optimization." In the proceedings of Evolving OpenMP for Evolving Architectures, 2018.

Using the Loop Chain Abstraction to Schedule across Loops in Existing Code

Ian Bertolacci, Michelle Strout, Jordan Riley, Stephen Guzik, Eddie Davis, Catherine Olschanowsky, "Using the Loop Chain Abstraction to Schedule across Loops in Existing Code." International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2018.

Teaching

CSU CS 192 (Freshman Seminar)

Math In Action in Computer Science (2014)

CSU CS 160 (Foundations in Programming)

Math In Action in Computer Science (2016)

Service and leadership

• President (Fall 2018 - Spring 2020) and Co-Founder, Computer Science Graduate Student Council, University of Arizona
• Computer Science Representative (Fall 2018 - Spring 2020), Associated Graduate Council for the College of Science, University of Arizona
• Undergraduate Representative (Fall 2013 - Spring 2016), Computer Science Undergraduate Committee, Colorado State University

Awards

• Graduate Service Award (Spring 2019), University of Arizona College of Science
• Graduate Service Award (Spring 2019), University of Arizona Department of Computer Science
• Dean’s List (Fall 2015), Colorado State University College of Natural Science
• 3rd Place, 2014 Undergraduate ACM Research Competition, SuperComputing14
• Best Undergraduate Poster (2014), Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing