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Dr Louise Wright
Teams and roles for Louise Wright
Lecturer
Director of Recruitment and Admissions
Overview
I am a lecturer at the National Software Academy, School of Computer Science & Informatics, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Java and performance & scalability. Prior to this, I was a Research Assistant on the EU Horizon 2020-funded SWITCH project, investigating how the SWITCH workbench could be adapted to support CUDA through experiments on Amazon Web Services.
My PhD project was in the interdisciplinary field of Bioinformatics. I implemented methods for finding molecular co-evolution on CUDA-enabled graphics cards, allowing these methods to be used on the entire human proteome for the first time.
Publication
2019
- Knight, L. et al. 2019. Towards extending the SWITCH platform for time-critical, cloud-based CUDA applications: Job scheduling parameters influencing performance. Future Generation Computer Systems 100 , pp.542-556. (10.1016/j.future.2019.05.039)
- Stefanic, P. et al. 2019. Application-infrastructure co-programming: managing the entire complex application lifecycle. Presented at: 10th International Workshop on Science Gateways 2018 Edinburgh, Scotland 13-15 June 2018. Published in: Atkinson, M. and Gesing, S. eds. Vol. 2357.CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- Stefanic, P. et al. 2019. Support for full life cycle cloud-native application management: Dynamic TOSCA and SWITCH IDE. Future Generation Computer Systems 101 , pp.975-982. (10.1016/j.future.2019.07.027)
- Stefanic, P. et al. 2019. SWITCH workbench: A novel approach for the development and deployment of time-critical microservice-based cloud-native applications. Future Generation Computer Systems 99 , pp.197-212. (10.1016/j.future.2019.04.008)
2018
- Knight, L. et al. 2018. Towards a methodology for creating time-critical, cloud-based CUDA applications. Presented at: IT4RIs 18: Interoperable infrastructures for interdisciplinary big data sciences- Time critical applications and infrastructure optimization Amsterdam, The Netherlands 18 January 2018. (10.5281/zenodo.1162877)
- Stefanic, P. et al. 2018. TOSCA-based SWITCH workbench for application composition and Infrastructure planning of time-critical applications. Presented at: The 3rd edition in the series of workshop on Interoperable infrastructures for interdisciplinary big data sciences (IT4RIs 18) Amsterdam, The Netherlands 18 January 2018.
2017
- Knight, L. 2017. Co-evolving protein sites: their identification using novel, highly-parallel algorithms, and their use in classifying hazardous genetic mutations. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Articles
- Knight, L. et al. 2019. Towards extending the SWITCH platform for time-critical, cloud-based CUDA applications: Job scheduling parameters influencing performance. Future Generation Computer Systems 100 , pp.542-556. (10.1016/j.future.2019.05.039)
- Stefanic, P. et al. 2019. Support for full life cycle cloud-native application management: Dynamic TOSCA and SWITCH IDE. Future Generation Computer Systems 101 , pp.975-982. (10.1016/j.future.2019.07.027)
- Stefanic, P. et al. 2019. SWITCH workbench: A novel approach for the development and deployment of time-critical microservice-based cloud-native applications. Future Generation Computer Systems 99 , pp.197-212. (10.1016/j.future.2019.04.008)
Conferences
- Knight, L. et al. 2018. Towards a methodology for creating time-critical, cloud-based CUDA applications. Presented at: IT4RIs 18: Interoperable infrastructures for interdisciplinary big data sciences- Time critical applications and infrastructure optimization Amsterdam, The Netherlands 18 January 2018. (10.5281/zenodo.1162877)
- Stefanic, P. et al. 2019. Application-infrastructure co-programming: managing the entire complex application lifecycle. Presented at: 10th International Workshop on Science Gateways 2018 Edinburgh, Scotland 13-15 June 2018. Published in: Atkinson, M. and Gesing, S. eds. Vol. 2357.CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- Stefanic, P. et al. 2018. TOSCA-based SWITCH workbench for application composition and Infrastructure planning of time-critical applications. Presented at: The 3rd edition in the series of workshop on Interoperable infrastructures for interdisciplinary big data sciences (IT4RIs 18) Amsterdam, The Netherlands 18 January 2018.
Thesis
- Knight, L. 2017. Co-evolving protein sites: their identification using novel, highly-parallel algorithms, and their use in classifying hazardous genetic mutations. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Research
My research interests are mainly in high performance computing (HPC), and particularly in the use of CUDA-enabled graphics cards. I have also done research into the use of CUDA with Cloud-based technologies.
Teaching
I am module leader for the following modules:
- Performance and Scalability (2nd year BSc)
- Programming Principles and Practice (MSc)
I am also a Personal Tutor to BSc and MSc students, supervise final year BSc and MSc dissertation projects as well as Year in Industry placement students, and am Director of Recruitment & Admissions for COMSC.
Biography
I have been a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Informatics since 2018, teaching in the National Software Academy as part of our BSc and MSc programmes. Prior to this, I worked for a few months as a Teacher at Cardiff University, which involved some lecturing (mostly first-year BSc Java) and also marking courseworks and exams.
After completing my PhD in Cardiff in 2017, I worked briefly as a Research Assistant on the EU Horizon 2020-funded SWITCH project, doing experiments involving getting the CUDA code I wrote during my PhD to work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances, and investigating how the SWITCH workbench could support CUDA in the future. My PhD project was more broadly a Bioinformatics project, as not only did I implement methods for solving Biological problems on CUDA-enabled graphics cards, but I also analysed the results I obtained from a Medical perspective. My interest in this fascinating area of Computer Science stems from my BSc study, also at Cardiff.
Professional memberships
Fellow of Advance HE (formerly HEA) FHEA
Academic positions
- 2018-present: Lecturer, Cardiff University
- 2018: Teacher, Cardiff University
- 2017-2018: Casual Research Assistant, Cardiff University
- 2013-2017: Demonstrator (as part of PhD)