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Raghavan appointed to National Science Foundation advisory committee

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Padma Raghavan, associate vice president for research and strategic initiatives at Penn State, director of the Institute for CyberScience, and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been appointed to serve on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee.

The NSF relies on this committee to deliberate and make recommendations on scientific opportunities and major policy challenges for CISE. As a member of the committee, Raghavan will help further initiatives such as advancing CISE frontiers, infrastructure, leadership, education and partnerships.

Raghavan joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2000. She specializes in high-performance computing and is deeply involved in research and education, supervising 46 masters and doctorate students. She has approximately 100 peer-reviewed publications in three areas: scalable parallel computing; energy-aware supercomputing; and computational modeling and knowledge extraction. Raghavan has earned several awards including an NSF CAREER Award, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Chicago and the Argonne National Laboratory), and selection as an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow for her contributions to scalable parallel computing.

Raghavan is also active in the profession serving on editorial boards and recently co-chairing the technical papers committees for two large conferences: the IEEE Supercomputing 2012 and the 2011 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering. Raghavan currently serves on the National Research Council's Committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure; the National Academies Panel on Information Science at the Army Research Laboratory; the review committee for the Computation Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the Council of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics; and the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing.

Last Updated April 21, 2017

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