Willow Marie Ahrens
I am a postdoc at MIT advised by Saman Amarasinghe, and an incoming professor at Georgia Tech! I am inspired to make programming high-performance computers more productive, efficient, and accessible. My research primarily focuses on using compilers to adapt programs to the structure of data, bridging the gap between program flexibility and data structure flexibility. I’m the author of the Finch array programming language, which supports a wide variety of programming constructs on sparse, run-length-encoded, banded, or otherwise structured arrays.
Session
Sparse methods are an increasingly important subsection of numerical computing algorithms. As datasets continue to grow many scientific and business problems become computationally infeasible without harnessing sparsity across the entire pipeline from input datasets, to intermediate results and final outputs. This minisymposium will bring together users and developers of Julia's sparse ecosystem to present on recent advances, identify capability gaps, and discuss the future of the ecosystem.