Maria Girone

Maria Girone is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the CERN openlab.[1][2] She leads the development of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies for particle physics experiments.[3]

Maria Girone
Alma materUniversity of Bari (PhD)
Known forCERN openlab
AwardsMarie Curie Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
Supercomputers
Computational science
Cloud computing
InstitutionsCERN
Imperial College London
Websiteopenlab.cern/team/maria-girone

Early life and education

Girone studied physics at the University of Bari.[4] She earned her doctoral degree in particle physics in 1994. She soon became a research fellow on the ALEPH experiment, supporting analysis and acting as liaison for the accelerator.[4][5] She was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship and joined Imperial College London, where she worked on the hardware development for both the LHCb and ALEPH experiments.[6][7]

Career and research

CERN openlab was established in 2001 and supports academics at CERN in their collaborations with independent companies. Girone moved into scientific computing in 2002, working for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). The WLCG stores, shares and assists in the analysis of data from the Large Hadron Collider[6] where she developed a persistence framework.[7] The WLCG is the largest assembly of computing resources ever collected for a scientific endeavour.[8] In the Large Hadron Collider experiment detectors there are around one billion beam collisions per second.[9] WLCG analyses billions of beam crossings and tries to predict the detector response.[10]

In 2009, whilst at the WLCG, Girone founded and led the Operations Coordinations team.[7] She was appointed coordinator of the software and computing for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) in 2014.[6] In this capacity, she was responsible for the operation of seventy computing centres across five different continents.[4] She joined CERN openlab as chief technology officer (CTO) in 2016.[4][11]

She has worked on the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider), which will require up to one hundred times more computing capacity than it did originally.[10][12] This increase in capacity will come through access to commercial cloud computing platforms, data analytics, deep learning and new computing architectures.[10][13]

References
  1. Maria Girone at DBLP Bibliography Server
  2. Maria Girone author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  3. Maria Girone on INSPIRE-HEP
  4. "Maria Girone". openlab-archive-phases-iv-v.web.cern.ch. CERN openlab. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  5. Girone, Maria (1995). "Global analysis of tau hadronic branching ratios in ALEPH". Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 40 (1–3): 153–162. Bibcode:1995NuPhS..40..153G. doi:10.1016/0920-5632(95)00140-5. ISSN 0920-5632. OCLC 4647605015.
  6. "Maria Girone | CERN openlab". openlab.cern. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  7. "CSC". csc-archive.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  8. "CERN Prepares for New Computing Challenges with Large Hadron Collider | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites". top500.org. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  9. "CERN pushes back the frontiers of physics". sciencenode.org. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  10. "CERN openlab CTO gives keynote talk at ISC High Performance conference". openlab.cern. CERN openlab. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  11. "Presenter – June 24-28, 2018". Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  12. Tackling Tomorrow's Computing Challenges Today at CERN, retrieved 2020-01-23
  13. June 26, RajeshN //; Reply, 2019 at 4:04 pm // (2019-06-24). "Answering the universe's big questions with Big Data and AI". Science & research news | Frontiers. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
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