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Dr. Michelle Mills Strout has led the Chapel project at Hewlett Packard Enterprise since January 2021. She is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Arizona in Computer Science, where she was a full Professor for 2015 through 2022. Michelle has been teaching in Computer Science since 2000. Michelle’s main research area is high performance computing and her research interests include compilers, scientific computing, and software engineering. She especially enjoys collaborating with domain scientists to understand their high performance computing needs and how parallel programming models can help. Dr. Strout earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego in 2003 with Jeanne Ferrante and Larry Carter as co-advisors. Michelle has two adult children whom she hangs out with whenever possible. In her free time, Michelle enjoys hiking, boating, downhill skiing, and reading.