About me
Research staff member
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Maria Eleftheriou is a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. While at IBM, she has been working mainly on the Blue Gene project. In particular, she has contributed in the design and the implementation of parallel algorithms and parallel programming models, and studied the performance of parallel scientific applications for the Blue Gene/L architecture. Another area of interest is large scale simulations addressing questions of biological interest, particularly in the area of protein folding. Maria Eleftheriou received her master's degree in engineering in 1995 and PhD. in theoretical/computational chemistry in 1999 from Brown University. After graduating, she worked briefly as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in the BioMolecular simulation center.
In addition to her work with Blue Gene, she currently chairs IBM Research’s community at Watson Research Center of technical women called the Watson Women’s Network (WWN).
Dr. Eleftheriou also serves as Research IBM Campus Relationship Manager for Brown University.
Last updated 19 Feb 2008