Presenter

Margaret Lawson is a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is advised by Dr. William Gropp, and a year-round intern at Sandia National Laboratories, where she is mentored by Dr. Jay Lofstead. Her research is focused on developing middleware to support discovery from scientific applications, with a focus on metadata management. Margaret graduated with a BA in computer science from Dartmouth College and is a DOE CSGF fellowship recipient.