Anne C. Elster
(IEEE SM’00, M’95, StudM’83) , received the B.S. degree in computer systems engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1985, where she also took several courses in computer science and honors mathematics. She also holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from Cornell University, where she explored various HPC systems in the late 80s and early 90s. She worked for Schlumberger in Austin 1994-97, then part-time at Univ. of Texas at Austin in 1997-2000 and founded ACENOR Inc. in 2000. Since January 2001, she has been with the Department of Computer and Information Science at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where she is an Associate Professor. She is also the co-founder and co-director of NTNU’s Computational Science and Visualization Program, and also holds a Visiting Scientist appointment with the University of Texas at Austin where she spends her sabbaticals and summers. Her research interests include high-performance computing in general, with a current focus on heterogeneous and parallel computing. She served on the MPI standards committees (MPI and MPI-2), and has served on several panels and many program committees through the years. She has supervised 50+ master students, published 50+ technical papers, and given 40+ invited talks and tutorials. She is a member of ACM, AGU, IEEE, SIAM, Tekna and several other technical societies.