- Ph.D.
- Computational Data Scientist, HPC Trainer
- SDSC
Mary works at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the Data-Enabled Scientific Computing Division, where she is the HPC/CI Advanced Computing Training Lead, and is responsible for developing and organizing educational and training materials to support the work of scientists running computational problems on HPC systems. Her research is focussed on computational science, parallel programming, advanced computational environments that support high-end scientific applications, and workforce development of the community of people who need to use HPC/CI resources. Thomas is PI or Co-PI of several NSF grants (2230127, 2017767, 2320977, 2346701, 2320934, 2112606, 1928224, 2404323), many of which focus on CyberTraining. Mary also works with graduate and undergraduate students through the SDSC HPC Students program. Her support and mentoring includes: mentoring interns in parallel computing on the Expanse cluster; developing advanced web technologies for the SDSC Advanced Computing Training program; and advising the IEEE Supercomputing Club,where she has sponsored several teams to participate in the annual Student Cluster Competitions at the annual Supercomputing conference. Mary is also a Research Faculty member at the Computational Sciences Research Center and the Department of Computer Science at San Diego State University. For more information, see https://www.sdsc.edu/~mthomas/index.html.