Paola Buitrago
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Group Leader
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Paola Buitrago leads the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data group at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Her group is focused on advancing and supporting the convergence of High Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data. Paola initiated a new platform for AI research on emerging hardware and software technologies, enabling the development of advanced algorithms and modeling approaches. She also leads the PSC Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) initiative, through which Internet scale datasets are integrated with supercomputing resources for cross cutting research communities. Her diverse background includes research in deep learning, large scale data and workflow management for high energy physics experiments at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Paola developed courses in machine learning, simulation and optimization at her university. She is passionate about education in technology and launched an education focused start up. Her academic background includes a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelors in Systems and Computing Engineering, plus a Masters from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
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