EN 4085
Laramie, WY
Phone: 307-766-5225
Email: gdallen@uwyo.edu
Curriculum Vitae
PhD Physics - Cardiff University - 1993
Master of Advanced Study/Part III Math Tripos - University of Cambridge - 1989
BS Mathematics - University of Nottingham - 1988
Gabrielle Allen was appointed the Director of the School of Computing in March 2022 after a university-wide search. Previously, she held an administrative role as the Special Assistant for Strategic Initiatives in the Research and Economic Development Division. Gabrielle holds academic appointments as a Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Gabrielle joined the University of Wyoming in January 2021, moving from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she served in multiple roles as Professor of Astronomy, Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education, Associate Director for Research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Adjunct professor in Computer Science and Curriculum and Instruction.
Gabrielle's other previous professional appointments include research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, the Russell Long Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University (LSU), and founding member and Assistant Director of its Center for Computation and Technology. She served as a Program Director in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2010-2012, where she was responsible for leading an NSF-wide working group running cross-agency software programs, including software institutes, and leading the OCI Learning and Workforce Development cluster.
Gabrielle's research work has focused on the development and application of scientific community software, including the Cactus Framework, Einstein Toolkit, and Grid Application Toolkit. Although her work has predominantly been related to simulations of black holes, neutron stars, and gravitational waves, her group's software has also been applied in fields as diverse as petroleum engineering, computational chemistry, coastal modeling, and computational fluid dynamics. The interdisciplinary nature of her research is reflected in her former faculty positions in Computer Science, Physics, Astronomy, Curriculum and Instruction, and her role as Associate Dean of Education. She has published over 100 refereed journal and conference papers and has been 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.
NSF IIP, Workshop: Human-Technology Interface Series - Pathways to Products for Lifelong Learning, #2140283, $99,998, August 1, 2021, to July 31, 2022. Co-Principal Investigator
NSF OAC, Collaborative Research: Frameworks: The Einstein Toolkit ecosystem: Enabling fundamental research in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics, #2004879, $683,514 to UI, Co-Principal Investigator, July 1, 2020, to June 3, 2024. Collaborative award to UI, Georgia Tech, RIT, UWV
NSF SSI, SI2-SSI: Collaborative Research: Einstein Toolkit Community Integration and Data Exploration, $450,000 to UI, Principal Investigator, 2016 to 2022. Collaborative award to UI, Georgia Tech, RIT, LSU.
NSF OAC/AST/PHY, Collaborative Research: Community Planning for Scalable Cyberinfrastructure to Support Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, #1841636, $38,210 to UI, October 2018 to September 2020. Collaborative award to 13 partners.
NSF CCF, Inter-agency Workshop for Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges (CSESSP Challenges), #1551592, $88,251, 2015 to 2019, Principal Investigator.
NSF ACI, The 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software: Best Practices and Experiences (WSSSPE 2), #1434218, $24,658, April 2014 to April 2016, Principal Investigator
LONI, Modeling and Visualization of the Effect of Severe Storms on Oil Spill Trajectories with the Cactus Framework and LONI, #HPC 2010-11-03, August 2010 to November 2010, $10,000. Principal Investigator
NSF OCI (REU), Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Computational Sciences, #1005165, May 2010 to April 2013, $253,518. co-PI
NSF OCI (STCI), Strategies for Remote Visualization on a Dynamically Configurable Testbed, #0947825, $299,447. Partners LSU, NCSA, ORNL, Internet2, LONI, August 2009 to July 2011, Principal Investigator.
NSF OCI, PetaCactus: Unraveling the Supernova — Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery, #0905046, $1,461,455. September 2009 to August 2014, co-PI.
NSF OCI (PRAC), Enabling Science at the Petascale: From Binary Systems and Stellar Core Collapse To Gamma-Ray Bursts, #0941653, September 2009 to August 2012, $35,896. co-PI.
NSF PHY (PIF) Collaborative Research: Community Infrastructure for General Relativity MHD (CIGR), #0904015, $400,000. October 2009 to September 2012, Principal Investigator.
Gordon Bell Prize in Supercomputing, 2001
High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge, 2002
IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge, 2009
LSU Rainmaker, 2009
External Advisory Board, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, 2013-
Lifetime Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2017
Governance Board, Irish Centre for High-End Computing, 2018-
Board of Advisors, American Heritage Center, 2020-
External Advisory Board, Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, 2021-
Member of LIGO Scientific Collaboration, 2016-2019
