Hi everyone! My name is Sandra Gesing, and I have one of the most exciting jobs I could imagine—I get to work at the intersection of science, technology, and community building! I split my time between two roles: I’m the Executive Director of the U.S. Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE), where I help bring together people who develop software for scientific research, and I’m also a Senior Researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), where I’ve been working to help researchers harness the power of supercomputing to solve real-world problems.
My work spans across multiple disciplines, from high-performance computing (HPC) to artificial intelligence (AI), scientific workflows, and research software engineering. I help make complex computing infrastructure more accessible to scientists and students so they can focus on big questions rather than struggling with technical hurdles. Whether it’s simulating climate models, running molecular dynamics for drug discovery, or training AI models on vast datasets, supercomputing is at the heart of modern science—and I get to help make it happen!
But let’s rewind a bit—how did I get here?
