Florina Ciorba

Florina Ciorba is Associate Professor and head of the High Performance Computing (HPC) Lab at the University of Basel, which she founded in 2015. She earned her Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens in 2008, followed by postdoctoral positions at Mississippi State University, USA, and the TUD Dresden - University of Technology, Germany.
Her research focuses on enhancing performance, resilience, portability, reproducibility, and autonomy in HPC and AI/ML systems. She has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers and received several best paper awards. Recent work includes autotuning, energy-efficient cosmological simulations, and autonomy loops for system performance.
She is a founding board member and PI of the Basel node in the SKACH project (Swiss SKAO Consortium) and co-founded IDEAS4HPC, the Swiss chapter of Women in HPC. Prof. Ciorba is a senior/life member of ACM and active in IEEE, HiPEAC, and DISCOVER-US. She serves on various boards and committees related to HPC and energy efficiency.
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