Kathryn (Katy) Huff

Bio

Relevant Previous Activities:

• Postdoctoral Scholar, Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
• Data Science Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science University of California Berkeley.
• Chair, Steering Committee, Software Carpentry Foundation
• Program Co-Chair, Proceedings Co-Chair, SciPy, 2012-2015
• Co-Founder, The Hacker Within
• Co-Author, Best Practices For Scientific Computing, PLOS Bio, 2014
• Co-Author, Effective Computation in Physics, A Field Guide to Research In Python, O’Reilly

Relevant Current Activities:

• Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering.
• Blue Waters Assistant Professor with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
• Editorial Board, Journal of Open Source Software
• Co-Author, The Practice of Reproducible Research, UC Press, 2016

Interests in the Workshop

I’m interested in insights concerning:

• Practical challenges of leading a software-development-focused research group in academia
• Challenges and solutions in training for students and researchers
• Strategies for developing user-developer communities in a scientific domain
• Ways to encourage publication venues (journals, etc.) to adopt and uphold stricter software quality requirements