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Almadena Chtchelkanova
Biography
Dr. Almadena Chtchelkanova is a Program Director at the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (CSF). Dr. Chtchelkanova has programmatic responsibilities in the areas of High Performance Computing (HPC), Foundations of Emerging Technologies, CISE Research Initiation Initiative, Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation, etc.
Before joining NSF in 2005 Dr. Chtchelkanova worked for Strategic Analysis, Inc. as a Senior Scientist providing technical support to Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA). She provided programmatic support and oversight for Spintronics, Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuIST) and Molecular Observation and Imaging programs.
Dr. Chtchelkanova spent four years working at the Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics at the Naval Research Laboratory located in Washington, DC. Dr. Chtchelkanova has considerable experience in the area of HPC applications. She developed and implemented portable, scalable, parallel adaptive mesh generation algorithms for computational fluid dynamics, weather forecast, combustion and contaminant transport.
Dr. Chtchelkanova holds an MA degree from the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin (1996) and a Ph.D. degree in physics and applied mathematics from Moscow Lomonosov State University in Russia (1988).
Before joining NSF in 2005 Dr. Chtchelkanova worked for Strategic Analysis, Inc. as a Senior Scientist providing technical support to Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA). She provided programmatic support and oversight for Spintronics, Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuIST) and Molecular Observation and Imaging programs.
Dr. Chtchelkanova spent four years working at the Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics at the Naval Research Laboratory located in Washington, DC. Dr. Chtchelkanova has considerable experience in the area of HPC applications. She developed and implemented portable, scalable, parallel adaptive mesh generation algorithms for computational fluid dynamics, weather forecast, combustion and contaminant transport.
Dr. Chtchelkanova holds an MA degree from the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin (1996) and a Ph.D. degree in physics and applied mathematics from Moscow Lomonosov State University in Russia (1988).
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