TACC Announces 2021-2022 Frontera Computational Science Fellowship Winners

June 3, 2021

June 3, 2021 — TACC announces the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship awardees for 2021-2022. The program provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students to compute on the most powerful academic supercomputer in the world and collaborate with experts at TACC.

Click here to learn more and for interviews with the awardees.

Liliana Cabrera Gallegos
School: Colorado State University
Field of Research: PhD candidate, Computational Organic Chemistry

 

Gurpreet Singh Hora
School: Columbia University
Field of Research: PhD, Computational Science

 

 

Yui Tik ‘Andrew’ Pang
School: Georgia Institute of Technology
Field of Research: PhD Candidate, Biophysics

 

 

Hongyuan Zhang
School: University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Field of Research: Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering

 

 

Source: TACC

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