Tiffany Connors

Acting Group Lead, Senior Cyber Security Engineer

tconnors@lbl.gov

Fax: (510) 486-6459

Security Group

1 Cyclotron Road

Mailstop: 59R3103

Berkeley, CA 94720 us

Biographical Sketch

Tiffany is a Cybersecurity Engineer in the Security Group. She began working at NERSC in 2019 as a HPC Consultant and Software Integration Specialist in the User Engagement Group, before moving to the Security and Networking Group in 2020. Prior to joining NERSC, she attended the Technical University of Munich, where she was studying in the informatics master's program with a specialization in HPC architecture and scientific computing.

Tiffany earned her B.Sc. in Computer Science in 2017 from Texas State University. During her undergraduate studies, she conducted research at the Compilers Research Lab at Texas State, focusing on machine learning-based performance tuning of GPU kernels. She also held research internships at The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), NERSC, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where she worked on projects related to HPC application and system performance modeling, monitoring, and tuning.

Conference Papers

Tiffany Connors, Taylor Groves, Tony Quan, Scott Hemmert, "Simulation Framework for Studying Optical Cable Failures in Dragonfly Topologies", Workshop on Scalable Networks for Advanced Computing Systems in conjunction with IPDPS, May 17, 2019,

Biplab Kumar Saha, Tiffany Connors, Saami Rahman, Apan Qasem, "A Machine Learning Approach to Automatic Creation of Architecture-sensitive Performance Heuristics", 2017 IEEE 19th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Bangkok, Thailand, December 18, 2017, doi: 10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS.2017.3

Tiffany A. Connors, Apan Qasem, "Automatically Selecting Profitable Thread Block Sizes for Accelerated Kernels", 2017 IEEE 19th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC17), December 18, 2017, doi: 10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS.2017.58

Ritu Arora, Trung Nguyen Ba, Tiffany A. Connors, "Pecos: A scalable solution for analyzing and managing qualitative data", DataCloud '16 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Data-Intensive Computing in the Cloud, November 13, 2016,

Tiffany Connors, Apan Qasem, "Power-performance analysis of metaheuristic search algorithms on the GPU", 2015 Sixth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), December 14, 2015,