Aparna is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine. Her research is in the area of high-performance computing and she leads the HPC Forge research lab. She received my Ph.D in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013 in the HPC Garage. Prior to joining UCI, she was a research scientist at MIT CSAIL, where she worked on the X-Stack (exascale software stack) project.