Presenter

Katherine Rasmussen is a Computer Systems Engineer who applies linguistics knowledge to developing, testing, and compiling programming languages for high performance computing. She has experience in language grammars and abstract syntax trees (ASTs) and works with Fortran, C, and C++. She works in the Computer Languages and Systems Software (CLaSS) Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she contributes to the Julienne unit-testing and string-handling utility, the LLVM Flang Fortran compiler, and the Caffeine parallel runtime library. She also does software archaeology, digging through layers of legacy code for purposes of modernization, porting, building, testing, and parallelization. She serves as an alternate on the Fortran Standards committee, has experience organizing the Fortran Standards committee meetings, and is the co-Publication chair for CARLA2025, the Latin America High Performance Computing Conference.