Presenter

Tatiana Melnichenko is a senior undergraduate computer science student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Since 2023, she has worked as a research assistant at the Innovative Computing Laboratory, founded by ACM Turing Award recipient Dr. Jack Dongarra, where she contributes to the development and testing of high-performance linear algebra libraries, including BLAS++ and SLATE. In the summer of 2025, she interned at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the U.S. DOE’s SULI program, exploring the productivity and performance of the Mojo programming language for GPU-accelerated computing. Tatiana’s interests include programming models, software engineering, and scientific computing. Tatiana is a student member of the ACM.