Elise Chavez
Email: emchavez@wisc.edu
GitHub: https://github.com/nanoemc
Status: Former Trainee
- GPU Training Module
- FPGA Training mMdule
- Software Development Course
Biography and Interests
I am a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on a PhD in High Energy Experimental Particle Physics with the CMS experiment. I hope to transition into Research Software Engineering as my career once I finish. Through TAC-HEP I have found that my main interest is supporting science through software development. My other interests include knitting, photography, cooking and baking, video games, board games, and hiking.
Project
I currently work on the Elastic Analysis Facility (EAF) hosted at Fermilab. It is part of the R&D effort to develop high performing analysis tools that we can use for HL-LHC and generally for other future experiments. Specifically I work on developing the Dask setup and system that integrates with Fermilab’s HTCondor system. I hope to improve the way we use Dask so that we can sustain and support many users in an easy to implement way. Other tasks I work on are benchmarking for the EAF, acting as a liaison between the EAF and IRIS-HEP, and I generally aid and support as a member of the EAF applications team.
Recent Accomplishments
- EAF White Paper for the European Strategy for Particle Physics – 2026 update
- US CMS Analysis Facility Meeting Talk documenting benchmarking efforts for the EAF through the AGC
- Added features to dask set-up (HTCdaskgateway), like user ability to specify worker images
- Updated Documentation for dask set-up (HTCdaskgateway) NOTE: Fermilab service accounts are now required for documentation access
- Demonstration Video of the EAF - Combination of the work described, produced for the AGC Demonstration Day
- Successfully adapted AGC Notebook to EAF
Mentors
- Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Burt Holtzman (Fermilab)
- Maria Acosta Flechas (Fermilab)