Melissa Romanus

Melissa Romanus is a data management engineer for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a member of the Operations Technology Group, where her research focuses on the ingestion, collection, analysis, and visualization of real-time streaming operational and systems data in data centers that support high performance computing systems. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) from Tufts University in 2010 and her Master’s in ECE from Rutgers in 2014. Melissa’s current research interests are in operational data analytics in high performance computing (HPC) data centers and system architecture of large-scale data lakes. She is also particularly interested in automating scientific workloads and data-driven science on HPC systems. Melissa represents Berkeley Lab on the Council of UC Staff Assemblies (CUCSA) and serves as the 2024-2025 chair of the Sustainable Workforce workgroup. In this role, she collaborates with colleagues across the UC system & partners in Systemwide HR to advocate for staff and drive initiatives focused on improving workplace policies and enhancing employee engagement. Melissa is a co-chair of the All Access Employee Resource Group. Passionate about fostering meaningful change, Melissa is committed to creating a supportive environment for all UC employees.