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Sadaf Alam
University of Bristol
CTO, Isambard Digital Research Infrastructures, Director of advanced computing strategy, University of Bristol (UK)
Description
Sadaf Alam is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Isambard supercomputing Digital Research Infrastructures (DRIs) and director of strategy and academia in the Advanced Computing Research Centre at the University of Bristol, UK. She is responsible for digital transformation for research computing and data assets management services. Prior to joining Bristol, Dr Alam was the CTO at CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. She was chief architect for two generations of Piz Daint innovative flagship supercomputing facilities and MeteoSwiss operational weather forecasting platforms. She was technical lead for European supercomputing centres’ federation project called Fenix. From 2004-2009 Dr Alam was a computer scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA, and a staff scientist at the ORNL Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). She studied computer science at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where she received her PhD. She was a founding member of the Swiss Chapter of Women in HPC.
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