Nicole Brewer
Software Engineer
Nicole Brewer is a software engineer in the Scientific Solutions Group in RCAC. Nicole is currently contributing to the science gateway, GeoEDF, an NSF funded web-platform for geospatial data management and analysis. Nicole enjoys engaging in activities related to mentorship, diversity and inclusion, communication, and the betterment of science through FAIR data and software, reproducibility and transparency, and software best practices.
Education
- B.S., Mathematics with Computer Science, Purdue University
Awards
- 2020 Science Gateways Community Institute Young Professional of the Year Award
- 2018 Phil Andrews Award, PEARC
- 2018 XSEDE Student Travel Grant to attend PEARC and participate in the student program
Engagement
- Steering committee member of the Research Software Engineering Association (US-RSE), an organization to support RSE's, build an inclusive community, and advocate for the role of RSE's in research
- Co-Chair of Women in High Performance Computing and host of the Long Tales of Science podcast
- Staff advisor for the Student Cluster Competition team in 2019
- Mentor for the Science Gateways Community Hackathon hosted at PEARC 2019
Selected Publications
- Brewer, N., Kim, H., Li, C., Anderson, H., Lanum, J., Cheoh, J., Hillery, B., \& Overmyer, T. (2019). Student cluster competition 2018, team ada six of Purdue University: Reproducing extreme scale multi-physics simulations of tsunamigenic 2004 sumatra megathrust earthquake on intel skylake architecture. Parallel Computing, 90, 102565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2019.102565
Presentations
- "How to Recruit and Sustain a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce: A Case Study", Invited Panelist, International RSE Day, Oct 2021.
- "Leveraging Traits for Highly Interactive Computational Tools in Jupyter", Video Presentation, Gateways Conference, Oct 2021.