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Joy Kitson

Headshot of Joy Kitson
Program Year:
4
University:
University of Maryland, College Park
Field of Study:
Computer Science
Advisor:
Abhinav Bhatele
Degree(s):
B.S. Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Delaware, 2016
Personal URL:
https://joy-kitson.github.io

Practicum Experience(s)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
Tim
Germann
Practicum Title:
Exploring the Interplay Between Disease and Fear Spread in an Agent-Based Epidemic Simulation

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2022)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
Moetasim
Moetasim
Practicum Title:
Advancing understanding of sub-seasonal scale land-atmosphere-ocean processes that influence compound heat and drought extremes.

Publications

J. Davis, P. Sivaraman, J. Kitson, K. Parasyris, H. Menon, I. Minn, G. Georgakoudis, A. Bhatele (2025). "Taking GPU Programming Models to Task for Performance Portability," paper accepted at ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2025, Salt Lake City, USA, 2025.
J. Kitson, A. Bhatele (2025). "Scalable Epidemiological Agent-based Modeling with Dynamic Behaviors," poster accepted at The 39th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium PhD Forum, Milan, Italy, 2025.
J. Kitson, I. Costello, J. Chen, D. Jimenez, S. Hoops, H. Mortveit, E. Meneses, J. Yeom, M. V. Marathe, and A. Bhatele (2025). "Pandemics In Silico: Scaling an Agent-Based Simulation on Realistic Social Contact Networks," paper accepted at The 39th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, Milan, Italy, 2025.
J. Kitson, I. Costello, J. Chen, D. Jimenez, S. Hoops, H. Mortveit, E. Meneses, J. Yeom, M. V. Marathe, and A. Bhatele (2024). "Strategies for Parallelizing an Agent-Based Model of Infectious Disease Spread," talk presented at the University of Maryland booth at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2024.
J. Davis, P. Sivaraman, J. Kitson, K. Parasyris, H. Menon, I. Minn, G. Georgakoudis, and A. Bhatele (2024). "Evaluating Performance Portability of GPU Programming Models," talk presented at 20th Annual Workshop on Charm++ and its Applications, 2024.
J. Kitson, I. Costello, D. Jimenez, J. Chen, J. Choi, S. Hoops, E. Meneses, T. Kellner, H. Mortveit, J. Yeom, L. V. Kale, M. V. Marathe, A. Bhatele (2023). "Loimos: A Large-Scale Epidemic Simulation Framework for Realistic Social Contact Networks," talk presented at the University of Maryland booth at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Denver, CO, USA, 2023.
J. Kitson, I. Costello, D. Jimenez, J. Chen, J. Choi, S. Hoops, E. Meneses, T. Kellner, H. Mortveit, J. Yeom, L. V. Kale, M. V. Marathe, A. Bhatele (2022). "Loimos: A Large-Scale Epidemic Simulation Framework for Realistic Social Contact Networks," poster presented at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Dallas, TX, USA, 2022.
M. Ashfaq, D. Rastogi, J. Kitson, M. A. Abid, S. C. Kao (2022). "Evaluation of CMIP6 GCMs over the CONUS for downscaling studies," Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, e2022JD036659.
J. Kitson, I. Costello, D. Jimenez, J. Chen, J. Choi, S. Hoops, E. Meneses, T. Kellner, H. Mortveit, J. Yeom, L. V. Kale, M. V. Marathe, A. Bhatele (2022). "Loimos: A Large-Scale Epidemic Simulation Framework for Realistic Social Contact Networks," talk presented at 20th Annual Workshop on Charm++ and its Applications, 2022.
J. Kitson, S. Chunduri, A. Bhatele (2020). "Analyzing Interconnect Congestion on a Production Dragonfly-based System," poster presented at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2020.
D. Rorabaugh, M. Guevara, R. Llamas, J. Kitson, R. Vargas and M. Taufer, "SOMOSPIE: A Modular SOil MOisture SPatial Inference Engine Based on Data-Driven Decisions, n 2019 15th International Conference on eScience (eScience) (pp. 1-10). IEEE.
S. Harrell, J. Kitson, et al., "Effective Performance Portability," in 2018 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Performance, Portability and Productivity in HPC (P3HPC), Dallas, TX, USA, 2018.
S. Harrell, J. Kitson, "Effective Performance Portability," presented at 2018 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Performance, Portability and Productivity in HPC (P3HPC), Dallas, TX, USA, 2018.
J. Kitson, "Plasma Meets Portability," presented at 2018 International Workshop on Women in HPC, Dallas, TX, USA, 2018.

Awards

Honorable Mention, Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division Graduate Research Assistant Lightning Talks, 2024
Computer and Information Science Outstanding Sophomore Student Award, 2018
Dean's List, University of Delaware, Fall 2016 - Spring 2020
Honor's Program, University of Delaware, Fall 2016 - Spring 2020
National AP Scholar, 2015, 2016
Scholastic Achievement Award, United States Marine Corps, 2016
National Merit Scholarship Finalist, 2016