Kathryn Mohror is the Director of the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Her research focuses on input/output (I/O) performance, in-system storage solutions, and high-performance computing (HPC) portability. Her other interests include scalable performance analysis and tuning, fault tolerance, and parallel programming paradigms.

Mohror joined LLNL in 2010 and previously led CASC’s Data Science & Analytics and Parallel Systems groups. She was a 2022 fellow in the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program and a 2019 recipient of the DOE Early Career Award. Mohror served as the Scientific Editor for LLNL’s Science & Technology Review magazine in 2018.

Her leadership experience also includes the UnifyFS and Scalable Checkpoint/Restart Library (SCR) projects, both R&D 100 Award winners. Additionally, she oversaw the IOPP project, funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Early Career Research Program, which advanced fundamental understanding of current and emerging HPC I/O workloads and developed support solutions. 

Beyond LLNL, Mohror has held several leadership roles in the HPC community. She has led major HPC standards and software initiatives, including roles on the PMIx Steering Committee, MPI Forum, and DOE’s Exascale Computing Project. She was the General Chair of the IEEE Cluster 2021 conference and serves on numerous other steering, organizing, and review committees for HPC conferences and workshops. Most recently, she is the General Chair of the 2027 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis—more commonly known as SC27—where her involvement spans more than 20 years.

Mohror received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science as well as a B.S. in Chemistry from Portland State University.

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