Presenter

Staci Smith is a fourth-year Ph.D. student under Dr. David Lowenthal at the University of Arizona. Her research interests are in performance analysis, performance modeling, and runtime systems for HPC machines. She currently focuses on communication and network performance, with interest in using routing, software-defined networking, and job scheduling techniques to decrease network congestion. She received her B.S in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Arizona in 2014, where she was selected as Outstanding Senior by both departments. She was a computer science Galileo Circle Scholar in 2013 and again in 2017, and she is currently the 2018-2019 ARCS Foundation Crawford Endowment Scholar.