Topic: Careers

For Lab employees Mariah Martinez and Paige Jones of LLNL Computing, their journeys to the Lab started with an internship. They have continued their work as full-time employees, paving the way for others to make a difference at the Lab.

IT manager Keith Downs has always been tinkering with computers, and much of his adult life has been shaped by his childhood interests.

Tammy Dahlgren has worked on a diverse variety of projects at the Lab, including supervisory control systems for the National Ignition Facility, animal disease modeling, mass hierarchical storage systems, RADIUSS, and more.

Cindy Gonzales earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree and changed careers—all while working at the Lab. Meet the deputy director of LLNL’s Data Science Institute.

Every year, LLNL welcomes hundreds of interns for an experiential, hands-on approach to learning. Working with some of the brightest minds in their fields, our interns have the opportunity to explore new projects, build their skills, connect with mentors, and integrate into Lab culture.

An LLNL Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Scott Kohn supports LLNL’s cyber security research program. He joined the Lab in 1997 as one of the first external hires into CASC, Computing’s primary research and academic outreach organization.

LLNL physicist Tammy Ma and computational scientist Jeff Hittinger were recently celebrated for winning the Krell Institute’s James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building, and Communication.

CASC computational mathematician Andrew Gillette has always been drawn to mathematics and says it’s about more than just crunching numbers.

Anna Maria Bailey, LLNL’s Chief Engineer for HPC and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, has enjoyed her “many careers” at the Lab and the ability to jump around to follow her interests.

2023’s Developer Day was a two-day event for the first time, balancing an all-virtual technical program with a fully in-person networking day.

In her nearly 40 years at LLNL, Julie Klein has seen a lot of change in the world through the Lab’s lens. She said that as a scientific institution, the Lab is only made better by pushing for greater diversity.

From wind tunnels and cardiovascular electrodes to the futuristic world of exascale computing, and with a few fantastic beasts thrown in for good measure, Brian Gunney has been finding solutions for unsolvable problems.

Lori Diachin will take over as director of the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project on June 1, guiding the successful, multi-institutional high performance computing effort through its final stages.

As CTO of Livermore Computing, de Supinski is responsible for formulating, overseeing, and implementing LLNL’s large-scale computing strategy, requiring managing multiple collaborations with the HPC industry and academia.

An LLNL Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Gokhale is considered an expert in her field, and continues to enjoy the fast pace of innovation and change in computing.

An LLNL Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Falgout is still finding the fun in problem solving as project leader for two of CASC’s most cutting-edge multigrid method computing projects, hypre and XBraid.

LLNL’s archives recount the contributions of women who developed code during the Lab's early decades.

The prestigious fellow designation is a lifetime honorific title and honors SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions to fields served by the organization.

Ferrari leads a group of developers and quality assurance personnel who support software that runs 24/7/365.

Women data scientists, Lab employees, and other attendees interested in the field gathered at the Livermore Valley Open Campus for the annual Livermore Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event held in conjunction with the global WiDS conference.

“I am delighted to be recognized by HPCwire,” Quinn said. “I feel the recognition has as much to do with the stature of Livermore Computing as the opportunity I’ve had to contribute. "

LLNL’s archives provide a glimpse into the career and contributions of a computing pioneer.

Tony Baylis, LLNL Office of Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Programs director and SC23 inclusivity co-chair, has devoted more than three decades to building partnerships and collaborations that exemplify the tenets of DEI.

Register by February 27 for this free, hybrid Women in Data Science event. Everyone is welcome.

Computer scientist Johannes Doerfert was recognized as a 2023 BSSw fellow. He plans to use the funding to create videos about best practices for interacting with compilers.