Since its founding in 2002, the fellowship has cultivated exceptional young scientists who have made outstanding contributions to computational and computing sciences as researchers, professors, and in the private sector.
A selection of vignettes about Alvarez Fellow alumni are presented below. For a full list of past fellows and where they are now, visit the main information page, scroll down, and select “The Fellows” to expand the section.
Jackie is a Research Scientist with the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) and has worked on multi-physics simulations.
Tess is now the X-Window Consortium Professor, assistant professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Jarrod is now a research scientist in the Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he works on quantum computation, quantum chemistry, numerical methods, and information sparsity.
Juliane first joined Berkeley Lab as a research scientist working on optimization methods. She currently manages the Artificial Intelligence, Learning, and Intelligent Systems (ALIS) group at the National Renewal Energy Laboratory in Colorado.
Didem is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She directs the Parallel and Multicore Computing Laboratory (ParCoreLab) at the university and remains a Berkeley Lab-affiliated researcher.
Lin is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the UC Berkeley. He also continues to conduct research with Berkeley Lab as a faculty scientist. Lin received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2019.
Anubhav is now a Berkeley Lab staff scientist focusing on new materials discovery using high-throughput computations. He serves as thrust lead for the Materials Project, a multi-institution effort to accelerate materials discovery by computing the properties of all known inorganic properties.
Aydın is a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division) and an Adjunct Faculty of the EECS (CS Division) at UC Berkeley. In 2013, Buluç was honored DOE Early Career Award for his work
She is a research scientist and division deputy for the Scientific Data Division (SciData). As an Alvarez fellow, Ramakrishnan evaluated cloud computing technologies and infrastructure for scientific applications.
Kamesh is an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he is the principal investigator and director of the Scalable Computing Laboratory. As an Alvarez fellow, he worked under the guidance of Berkeley Lab's Arie Shoshani on developing parallel graph algorithms and massive scientific data analysis.
Joshua is a professor at Fordham University, holding the Bepler Chair in Chemistry. His research focuses on accelerating the discovery of new materials using a combination of physics-based simulations, cheminformatics, machine learning, and automated experimentation.
