ITaP, Purdue Women in HPC group hosting NVIDIA GPU developer advocate Nov. 29

ITaP Research Computing and Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing group will host NVIDIA GPU developer advocate Fernanda Foertter for a talk at 10 a.m. on Nov. 29 in the Lawson Computer Science Building, Room 1142.

Foertter’s presentation “What’s Gaming Have to Do with Healthcare?” will discuss how GPUs can be used in diagnostic imaging tools to make advances in health care. She will also discuss her career path and what led her to her current position at NVIDIA.

The event is free and open to anyone in the Purdue community. Those who are planning to attend should register here.

Foertter has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Florida International University, a master’s degree in materials science engineering from the University of Florida, and is currently working on a doctorate in data science and engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her primary research focus is studying the scalability of deep learning algorithms on supercomputers for use in cancer research.

Before joining NVIDIA, she worked at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). At ORNL, she helped design and build Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer.

For more information, contact Marisa Brazil, program manager for Research Computing, brazil@purdue.edu.

Writer:  Adrienne Miller, science and technology writer, Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), 765-496-8204, mill2027@purdue.edu

Last updated: Nov. 26, 2018