Dr. Valentina Salapura is an IBM Master Inventor and System Architect at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Salapura is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and an IEEE Fellow.

Dr. Salapura's contributions to IBM's technology leadership have been recognized with the honorary title of IBM Master Inventor. Dr. Salapura is the recipient of 24 IBM Invention Plateaus, several top licensing patent awards, and a variety of other corporate awards including an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award in recognition for her technical contributions. Valentina Salapura is recipient of the 2006 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Special Achievements for the BlueGene/L supercomputer and Quantum Chromodynamics, and IEEE Region 1 award. She is the author of over 60 papers and 80 patents on processor architecture and high-performance computing. Dr. Salapura is an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and is a speaker for the CRA-W/CDC Destinugusihed Lectures Series. Dr. Salapura is an IEEE Fellow, member of IFIP WG10.3, and has Erdös number 3.


Research
Valentina has recently joined the Services Innovation Lab to help IBM realize the value of cloud computing for our customers. In 2010, Valentina served as a co-lead for the Global Technical Outlook with the IBM Research Strategy and Worldwide Operations team to lead definition of future research agenda and strategy working with worldwide IBM research organizations. Previously, Valentina was a computer architect for the Power8 processor definition team, and has been a technical leader for the Blue Gene program since its inception. She has contributed to the architecture and implementation of several generations of Blue Gene Systems focusing on multiprocessor interconnect and synchronization and multithreaded, multicore architecture design and evaluation. Valentina has been unit lead for several units of BlueGene/P, a unit lead in BlueGene/Q, as well as a leader of the chip and system bringup effort.

Before joining IBM Research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 2000, Dr. Salapura was Assistant Professor with the Dept. of Computer Engineering at Technische Universität Wien. She received the Ph.D. degree from Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Zagreb, Croatia.

IN THE MEDIA
InfoWorld: The geek mystique: 10 leading women in tech

Anita Borg Institute: Senior Technical Woman Profile: Dr. Valentina Salapura

Women's Radio: Super Architect for Super Computers

HPCwire: Q&A with Dr. Valentina Salapura

Mentoring

Dr. Salapura is passionate about mentoring and promoting the participation of women and under-represented minorities in technical disciplines.

Dr. Salapura teaches science to a troop of Girl Scouts.