The WHPC Community Virtual Technical Talk Series is a community-driven initiative designed to create an inclusive and supportive space for individuals across academia, industry, and STEM organizations to share technical projects, research, tools, and innovative ideas. The initiative aims to encourage collaboration, professional growth, knowledge sharing, and community connection while helping amplify diverse voices in technology and research.
Event Details:
Friday, May 22nd, 2026
10:00–11:00 AM ET
We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming WHPC Community Tech Talk, featuring two engaging presentations!
Anjusree Karnavar – Doctoral Researcher at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Lightning Talk (5–10 minutes)
Anjusree Karnavar is a Doctoral Researcher at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, working in collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). Her research focuses on Computer Vision, Image Restoration, and Deep Learning, developing advanced AI techniques, using diffusion models and Vision Transformers, to restore and enhance degraded images for more reliable vision-based systems. Before pursuing her PhD, she worked for six years as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, India. Her interests lie in advancing AI-driven methods for visual computing and intelligent systems.
Sasmita Mohapatra – HPC Research Scientist & Facilitator, University of Texas at Dallas
Standard Presentation (20–30 minutes)
Dr. Sasmita Mohapatra is a HPC Research Scientist and facilitator working on HPC software tools and user support at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), High Performance Computing, Office of Research and Innovations, in Richardson, Texas. She works on parallel jobs, SLURM configuration, and resource usage analysis. She’s been focused on improving job efficiency policies across their clusters. She enjoys debugging weird MPI behavior, parallelizing code with OpenMP and performance tuning with OpenMP and MPI. She also enjoys helping users get the most out of their code. She is actively involved in HPC orientations, user guide and several other training programs for UTD clusters.
