Heike Jagode

Biography

Heike Jagode joined the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL), under the leadership of Jack Dongarra, in 2008. Currently, she holds the position of Research Associate Professor at ICL, which is part of the Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). Furthermore, Heike assumed the role of Lead of the ICL Performance Group in 2013. She specializes in High Performance Computing (HPC) and the efficient utilization of advanced computer architectures. Her primary focus is on developing methods and tools for performance analysis, tuning, and energy efficiency of parallel scientific applications.

Heike's Ph.D. research (advisor: Jack Dongarra) focused on a multi-disciplinary effort to develop Dataflow Programming Paradigms for Computational Chemistry Methods to make these methods compatible with next-generation task scheduling systems like StarPU or PaRSEC. In her research, she converted the state-of-the-art NWChem Coupled Cluster methods into different dataflow versions and demonstrated the benefits of dataflow-based task execution over coarse grain parallelism in terms of scalability, resource utilization, and programmability.

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Summary of Current and Past Appointments
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At the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL), led by Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA:
Research Associate Professor (07/2023 to present)
Lead of ICL Performance Group (07/2013 to present)
Research Assistant Professor (10/2017 to 06/2023)
Research Director (03/2014 to 09/2017)
Research Scientist II (11/2011 to 02/2014)
Research Associate III (02/2008 to 10/2011)

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), joint appointment with ICL:
Research Associate III (02/2008 to 02/2009)

At the Center of High-Performance Computing (ZIH), led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nagel, University of Technology Dresden, Germany:
Research Staff (01/2002 to 01/2008)

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EDUCATION
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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA (05/2017)
Dissertation: "Dataflow Programming Paradigms for Computational Chemistry Methods", (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra)

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in High Performance Computing, University of Edinburgh, EPCC, Scotland, UK (08/2006)
Dissertation: "Fourier Transforms for the BlueGene/L Communication Network", (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hein)

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Applied Techno-Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Germany (12/2001)
Thesis: "Calculation of Heat Conduction for a Building Simulation", (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Cordula Bernert)

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Applied Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Germany (2001)