Presenter

Dr Sadaf R. Alam drives Bristol’s frontier supercomputing capabilities as Director of Advanced Computing Strategy and CTO at the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS). Since joining the University of Bristol in 2022, she has led transformation of research computing and data services, co-founding Isambard-AI, national federated supercomputing resources, and sustainable digital research infrastructure (DRI) strategies. Previously CTO at CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre), she was chief architect for multiple generations of the Piz Daint systems and the MeteoSwiss operational forecasting platforms. With a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, and experience at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Sadaf blends deep technical expertise with visionary leadership in sovereign AI, HPC, quantum and data services architecture.