Shannon Moran, a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Chemical Engineering, has won a 2017 SIGHPC Intel Fellowship. Shannon is a member of the Glotzer Group. They use computer simulation to discover the fundamental principles of how nanoscale systems of building blocks self-assemble, and to discover how to control the assembly process to engineer new materials.
ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing is an international group with a major professional society that is devoted to the needs of students, faculty, researchers and practitioners in high performance computing. This year they awarded 12 fellowships around the country with the aim of increasing the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, including women as well as students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the computing field. The fellowship provides $15,000 annually for study anywhere in the world.
The fellowship is funded by Intel and is presented at the annual Super Computing conference that this year will take place in November 13-16 in Denver, Colorado.