Rebecca Hartman-baker is a computational scientist and user engagement leader with 19 years of experience helping researchers scale applications from clusters to leadership-class supercomputers. Based in Berkeley, she leads user engagement at Berkeley Lab and has a deep mathematical background in numerical optimization, ill-posed problems, and load balancing for massively parallel programs. She has steered cross-institutional collaborations and architecture decisions for petascale systems, combining hands-on computational science with staff leadership and training. Early work includes implementing load balancing in the MADNESS framework, reflecting a rare blend of research-grade software development and operational expertise in HPC environments.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at University of Kentucky
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Rebecca Hartman-baker - User Engagement Group Leader at Berkeley Lab