Season 3, Episode 2 –- Margaret Lawson: Finding Her Place
Science in Parallel
English - May 10, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes - 29.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMathematics Science Technology energy hpc supercomputer artificialintelligence computationalscience computerscience computing csgf doecsgf doenationallabs Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Even after enjoying her first computer science course, Margaret Lawson wasn’t convinced she’d have a place in the field. But today she works on cloud storage for Google after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she was supported by a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF).
This conversation was recorded at the Supercomputing meeting (SC22) in Dallas in November 2022, where Margaret co-led a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session on Ethics in High Performance Computing. We talked about that session, her pursuit of challenging computer science problems and progress for women in computing.
You’ll meet:
Margaret Lawson is a software engineer based in Google’s Kirkland, Washington, office. There she primarily works on cloud storage platforms.