Presenter

Giulia Guidi is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley and a graduate research assistant at the Computational Research Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory advised by Aydın Buluç and Kathy Yelick. Giulia is a 2020 ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellow. She received both her Master and Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on the development of a novel algorithm to de novo assemble genomes in distributed memory using long-read sequencing data. Giulia is interested in the intersection of High-Performance Computing and Computational Biology as enabling technology for faster, high-quality bioinformatics and biomedical research.