Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina, United States
Melissa Smith is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, joined Clemson in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in 2003 in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tennessee, where she specialized in performance modeling for high-performance computing systems. Prior to joining Clemson University, she was a research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Dr. Smith has over 25 years of experience developing and implementing scientific workloads and machine learning applications across multiple domains, including 12 years as a research associate at ORNL. Her current research focuses on performance analysis and optimization with emerging heterogeneous computing architectures (GPGPU- and FPGA-based systems) for various application domains, including machine learning, high-performance or real-time embedded applications, and image processing. Her group collaborates with researchers in other fields to develop new approaches to the application/architecture interface, providing interdisciplinary solutions that enable new scientific advancements and capabilities.
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