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Naw Safrin Sattar, Ph.D., joined Meharry Medical College as assistant professor of high-performance computing in the Computer Science and Data Science department in the School of Applied Computational Sciences in July 2025. Dr. Sattar's research covers high-performance computing, parallel algorithms, scalable large graph mining, big data analytics, and machine learning/deep learning at scale. She seeks to support computational scientists and researchers by developing parallel algorithms to solve computationally expensive problems and achieve optimal performance on exascale HPC systems. Dr.Sattar was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Analytics & AI Methods at Scale group in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Safrin’s research at ORNL focused on distributed large graph algorithms, parallel computing, benchmarking, performance optimization, large-scale data analytics on HPC systems, and the scalability of machine learning models.