Yun He

Helen is a high performance computing consultant in the NERSC User Engagement Group. She is currently the NERSC user training lead. In this role, she leads efforts to strategically plan, host, and develop user training events to provide knowledge to users on resource familiarization, optimized utilization, and skills development for effectively using NERSC resources. For the past 15 years, she has been the main UEG point of contact among users, system people, and vendors, for the Cray XT4 (Franklin), XE6 (Hopper) systems, and XC40 (Cori) systems at NERSC, leading and contributing significantly in areas such as programming and software environment, user communication, documentation, training, benchmarking, batch queues and jobs monitoring on these systems. She also provides support for climate users. Helen serves on the OpenMP Language Committee, advocating NERSC users’ interest in new language features while keeping simplicity, consistency, and portability in mind. She co-authored the book “OpenMP Common Core: Making OpenMP Simple Again,” published by MIT Press as part of their Scientific and Engineering Computation Series. She has been on the Organizing and Technical Committees of a number of HPC conference series, including Super Computing (SC), Cray User Group (CUG), International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP), International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), and IXPUG (Intel Xeon Phi User Group (IXPUG). She served as Program Chair for CUG 2017 and CUG 2018. Helen has published 10+ journal papers and 15+ CUG and IWOMP papers and presented numerous scientific talks and tutorials at various HPC venues.