Presenter

Barbara Chapman is a Distinguished Technologist and software architect for the Cray Programming Environment at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). She has been a Professor of Computer Science for over 20 years and remains affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University. Dr. Chapman has served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Chapman's areas of research interest focus on parallel programming interfaces and the related implementation technology, and she is engaged in efforts to develop community standards for parallel programming, including OpenMP, OpenACC and OpenSHMEM. Her Stony Brook research group contributes to the open source LLVM compiler infrastructure and provides a reference implementation of the library-based OpenSHMEM standard. Dr. Chapman has co-authored over 200 papers and two books. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen’s University of Belfast.