Lori Ann Diachin (formerly Lori Ann Freitag) is an American computer scientist specializing in

scientific computing Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

, mesh generation, mesh improvement, and interoperability. She works in the Computation Directorate of the

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

, where she is Deputy Associate Director for Science and Technology, and Deputy Director of the Exascale Computing Project.

Education and career

Freitag's father was a professor, specializing in mathematics education. She majored in mathematics at

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania PennWest Edinboro is a campus of Pennsylvania Western University, a multi-campus public university in Pennsylvania. Located in the town of Edinboro, the campus has more than 4,600 enrolled students. History Edinboro University was founded ...

, graduating in 1988, and did graduate study in applied mathematics and

numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...

at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

, completing her Ph.D. there in 1992. Her dissertation, ''Parallel Solution of the Generalized Helmholtz Equation on Distributed Memory Architectures'', was supervised by James McDonough Ortega. She became a researcher at the

Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research United States Department of Energy National Labs, national laboratory operated by University of Chicago, UChicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy. The facil ...

, working there on the CAVE virtual-reality environment. She also worked as a researcher at the Sandia National Laboratory, before moving to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2003.

Recognition

Diachin was one of the 1997 winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diachin, Lori Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists Edinboro University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Virginia alumni Argonne National Laboratory people Sandia National Laboratories people Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff