Author

Gabrielle Allen is the Director of the School of Computing at the University of Wyoming. Gabrielle joined the University of Wyoming in 2021 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she served as Professor of Astronomy, Associate Dean in the College of Education, Associate Director at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and adjunct professor in Computer Science and Curriculum and Instruction. She has held appointments at Louisiana State University, the National Science Foundation, and universities in Russia, Germany, and the UK. Gabrielle’s research has focused on the development and application of scientific community software, including the Cactus Framework, Einstein Toolkit, and Grid Application Toolkit. She has published over 100 refereed papers and was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in Supercomputing in 2001, the IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge in 2009, and the High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge in 2002. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.