Karen Devine
Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics, Elected Secretary
United States
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Top SchoolKaren Devine is a seasoned computational scientist and software leader with 28 years of experience driving high-performance computing research and production numerical software. She has held long-term leadership roles at Sandia National Laboratories—rising to Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff—and now serves as Elected Secretary of SIAM while co-chairing major conferences like IPDPS and SC. Her hands-on expertise spans C++, MPI, GPU programming, Kokkos, and large open-source projects such as Trilinos and Zoltan, coupled with proven skill leading multi-institution teams and mentoring early-career researchers. Karen blends deep research credentials (PhD in Computer Science) with practical program and committee leadership, from technical program construction for 400+ paper reviews to DOE Exascale advisory work. An understated strength is her ability to translate complex numerical and parallel-algorithm challenges into robust, maintainable software and community-wide initiatives.
28 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Wilkes University
Github Skills (86)
python10
abstraction10
trilinos10
scientific-computing10
parallel-processing10
algorithms10
lists10
hpc10
portability10
ecosystem9
parallel-execution9
cluster-computing9
sparse-matrix9
parallel9
parallel-computing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sandialabs/Zoltan
Nov 2020 - Feb 2022
Zoltan Dynamic Load Balancing and Graph Algorithm Toolkit -- Distribution site
Contributions:3 releases, 26 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 3 months
graph-algorithmspartitioningscr-429snl-comp-science-libssnl-science-libs
sjplimp/mapreduce
Jun 2008 - Jun 2011
Contributions:339 commits in 2 years 11 months
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