Jose M Monsalve Diaz

I got my PhD and Masters from the University of Delaware. During this time I had the opportunity to work at the CRPL research group for several years. I obtained my master’s degree guided by Sunita and supported by my peers at CRPL. It was through this time that I really understood that a good graduate education experience can only be achieved through excellent academic advisors that have the ability to form strongly bonded research groups. Being a good professor and being able to create a strong research group goes beyond scientific relevance, and it is accompanied by a set of human and interpersonal skills that are often overlooked. Sunita’s research group shines for its academic excellence, but above all, for its human talent.

As a student, it is critical to have someone that inspires you and pushes you forward to grow personally and professionally. That is exactly what I was able to find when working with professor Sunita and her students. After finishing my studies at UD, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, part of the Department of Energy. Currently, I am a research software engineer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). I work on hardware/software co-design, runtime systems, compilers, and computer architectures. This allows me to work on several applications that target HPC systems, including AI and scientific computing. To this day, I keep in touch with CRPL, and actively communicate with Prof. Sunita. She’s always up to date in the most recent trends, and by keeping in touch I follow her teachings on the importance of networking and outreach.