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@CornellCIS Assistant Professor | @LBNLcs Affiliate Faculty | @UCBerkeley PhD | Distributed & Parallel Computing (HPC) | Dogs, Skis, Pottery | she/her

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Giulia Guidi
10 months
I am honored to receive this award and I would like to thank all those who have contributed their time, effort and enthusiasm to support my work, especially @aydoz and @KathyYelick . Thank you, @CornellCIS , for the amazing support I have received in my first year as a faculty!
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Cornell Computer Science
10 months
Congrats to @GiuliaGuidi , assistant professor of computer science at @CornellCIS , on winning the SIAM 2024 Supercomputing Early Career Prize! 👏👏 Guidi was selected for her “pioneering works bridging high-performance computing and computational biology."
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
“One day you’ll be my colleague”, told me a professor during my master’s defense, I laughed—but he was right. I’m beyond happy and excited to say that starting next Spring I‘ll be part of the @Cornell family as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at @cs_cornell ! 1/n
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Giulia Guidi
7 months
This semester, two students have told me that they have fallen in love with HPC because of my course and want to pursue a career in HPC, and that is one of the absolute best parts of my job!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
@astrowizicist This happened to me too — but I didn't realize it until 2 days later when I thought my car had been stolen.
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
I’m thrilled to say I passed my qualifying exam yesterday and I’m officially a PhD candidate in Computer Science at @UCBerkeley —Thank you so much to my committee for the fruitful discussion and invaluable feedback @joe_hellerstein @DanRokhsar @aydoz @KathyYelick 1/n
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
I just submitted my first grant as a PI 🥲
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
It was a late afternoon of my first week of work —my advisor stopped by my desk, drew the routes to his favorite brewery and coffee shop on a piece of paper and told me to leave (then I knew it was a good fit).
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Dr. Elinne Becket - @bielleogy on all platforms
3 years
I had to fire my grad student tonight, for being in lab so late. She's re-hired tomorrow, but tonight she needs to clear out and go get dinner.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
PhD Graduation Ceremony | @UCBerkeley Engineering Commencement — May 18, 2022
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
I'm super happy to receive the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from the @UCBerkeley GSI Teaching and Resource Center. I truly enjoyed my time as TA (GSI) for Applications of Parallel Computers—thank you to @aydoz , @KathyYelick , and Jim Demmel for nominating me!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Being a prof is like being a grad student but every day there’s a deadline (or more)
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
A PhD applicant just emailed me to thank me for the guidance offered through the EAAA program (UCB) and follow up 1-1 interaction—they have been admitted to a top school program! I can’t think of a better way to start the weekend than “thank you for being an amazing guide”.
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
I recently asked a professor what would make a young faculty successful (but could apply to anyone really) and they said “You should have fun! If one is having fun, the chances they’re doing a terrible job are low”—and I have been thinking about that a lot.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
If you’re looking for some summer reading, are bored of the usual stuff, and are looking for some real drama (kidding), here’s my PhD dissertation: Officially Dr. Guidi—Got also my spot on @CornellCIS ’s website!
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Giulia Guidi
4 years
I'm so happy to announce that the Equal Access to Application Assistance Program at @Berkeley_EECS is now accepting applications! The Equal Access to Application Assistance Program is aimed at assuring all students have someone to review their application before submission. 1/n
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Got my first tiny grant today for curriculum development from @intel — Yay!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Ciao, today I spoke at the @CornellCIS Lunch and Learn seminar on the CS academic job search (mainly research track and US market or US-like market). I'm happy to share my slides here in case they might be helpful to other people! PDF: 1/2
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Giulia Guidi
4 years
This is terrific —I’m honored to be one of the 2020 SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellows! I must thank my advisors ( @aydoz and @KathyYelick ) and my colleagues for not only supporting me but also challenging and motivating me every day.
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ACM SIGHPC
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Congratulations to the 2020 SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellows! These 12 students are bright, curious, and motivated to change the world. They will be recognized at the awards ceremony at SC20.
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Hi all prospective grad students! I’m a proud co-organizer of the Equal Access to Application Assistance (EAAA) program at @Berkeley_EECS and I’m happy to announce that the 2021 edition is now accepting applications! Deadline: Oct 15, 2021 —Apply here:
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Giulia Guidi
5 years
Our updated preprint is out! BELLA computes overlap detection as an efficient sparse matrix-matrix multiplication kernel. BELLA also introduces techniques from probability theory and high-performance computing not commonly used in sequence analysis.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
It's a dark time, as my dog Sieger passed away unexpectedly earlier this week from an aggressive tumor—those who knew him know how special he was. I miss him terribly and he'll never be replaced. He accompanied me through grad school and offered me inimitable support and love.
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Giulia Guidi
11 months
I’m honored to be the winner of the @issnaf Mario Gerla award. Professor Gerla's legacy is an inspiration, and I’m determined to continue in his spirit—I look forward to pushing the boundaries of HPC and using computation to work toward a better future for science and medicine.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Gave my first lecture at Cornell today — I wish my students were right about HPCG!
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Giulia Guidi
9 months
A recent study has shown that academics spend on average 50% of their working time dual authenticating into stuff.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
If you’re applying to grad school and interested in parallel computing for sciences, please consider applying to @cs_cornell and mentioning me in your application!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Here until Friday! Then, here until undefined starting January!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
@MIT_CSAIL That was not supposed to work
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
friend: congratulations! how are you gonna celebrate? me: writing a grant proposal due in early May friend: ...
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Turns out the people who said it was stressful to apply for faculty positions were not being overly dramatic — Nonetheless, I am happy and excited to announce that I have decided to go on the academic job market this year! 💃 1/n Tips, job postings, and hugs are welcome!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
In Berkeley we do it in reverse—I'll give my dissertation talk this Friday 10am PDT. If you'd like to attend, DM me for details! I'll be in Berkeley until December as a Project Scientist at @LBNLcs and then I'll move to @CornellCIS as an Assistant Professor starting in January.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
PhD Graduation Ceremony | @UCBerkeley Engineering Commencement — May 18, 2022
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Twitter please stop and look how cute my dog is
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Giulia Guidi
4 years
How it started: How it’s going:
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Giulia Guidi
4 years
End the (what a) year on a high note: Our paper on how to build a overlap graph and perform transitive reduction on it in distributed memory using sparse matrices has been accepted to #IPDPS ’21: . GG, O. Selvitopi, M. Ellis, L. Oliker, @KathyYelick , @aydoz
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Giulia Guidi
11 months
Our paper “Space Efficient Sequence Alignment for SRAM-Based Computing: X-Drop on the #Graphcore IPU” has been featured in the @CornellNews and it'll be presented at @Supercomputing #SC23 by Luk Burchard on November 14: #HPC
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Cornell Chronicle
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Better genome assembly — through AI? A hardware accelerator, developed for #ArtificialIntelligence operations, can speed up alignment of protein and DNA molecules, making the process up to 10 times faster than current methods. @CornellCIS @Supercomputing
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Giulia Guidi
5 years
Our paper "LOGAN: High-Performance GPU-Based X-Drop Long-Read Alignment" got into #IPDPS20 ! Our implementation achieves up to 181.6 GCUPS improving an application runtime by up to 10.6x. @AlbertoZeni , GG, M. Ellis, N. Ding, @santambr , S. Hofmeyr, @aydoz , L. Oliker, @KathyYelick
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
Summer in Ithaca ☀️
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
"You know," (s)he said, "sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage [to write the first sentence of a paragraph or section]. Just literally 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery [to write down some half-baked ideas]. And I promise you, something great will come of it."
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Hope your Sunday is going well
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Can’t get tired of this view @LBNLcs
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Gotta say this laptop stand is pretty good — 5 ⭐️
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
The therapist should pay me for the entertainment
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
I'm very happy to announce our paper "Distributed-Memory Parallel Contig Generation for De Novo Long-Read Genome Assembly" has been accepted at @icpp_conf 2022! CC: Gabriel Raulet, @DanRokhsar , Lenny Oliker, @KathyYelick , and @aydoz 1\n
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Giulia Guidi
5 years
I was looking forward #GI2019 to catch up with friends and talk about our recent work on long-read overlap detection and alignment via sparse-matrix multiplication. Unforeseen circumstances are preventing me to attend —I know Twitter will help me to keep on top of things, though!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
This is the first time in my life that someone has made a personalized cake for me and I couldn’t be happier— @mbpmilano , you’re the absolute best!
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Giulia Guidi
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Commute to work 😏
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
I’ll be recruiting students! I’m interested in parallel algorithms (OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, HIP, etc.) for genomics, in particular using combinatorics and high-level primitives, as well as in #HPC in the cloud and building scalable data analytics infrastructures across systems. 5/n
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
Cappuccino at noon in Italy — they’re about to rip my passport
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Giulia Guidi
4 years
One thing I learned in grad school is to ask stupid questions. Because there’s a good chance they are not stupid at all —and if they are, you have just learned something anyway.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
I'm very pleased to have been invited to give a talk at the minisymposium on Combinatorial Scientific Computing at @TheSIAMNews Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) 2023. Looking forward to being in Amsterdam next February!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
I saw compassion (or pity?) this morning in the eyes of passersby watching me shovel snow in the driveway where my car with California plates was parked.
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Given how many times I repeated this just in the past week, here’s a thread on where to find good Italian food in the Bay Area 🙃1/n
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
ACM @SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellows 2020, 2021, and 2022 at #SC22 — full house!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
I was talking today with an Italian graduate student who is also graduating this summer, and apparently, we were both introduced to research in northern Italy after being brutally dumped by our once-upon-a-time partner. Research as a cure for a broken heart.
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
I'm happy to start this semester by saying I have been invited to give a lecture for the "Graph Algorithms in the Exascale Era" minisymposium @TheSIAMNews Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing on Feb 23—hope to see you in Seattle, pandemic permitting.
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Giulia Guidi
4 years
Got my 2nd dose yesterday and just got the news that both my grandmas and my mom have a vaccine appointment in the next week or so —I can now really enjoy a little fever and a couch potato day
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
To Italian computer science 💻 students interested in continuing their academic career in the US: DM if you are interested in joining a Slack workplace for 🇮🇹 researchers in the 🇺🇸 or for 🇮🇹 researchers abroad interested in continuing their career in the 🇺🇸.
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
I am honored I have been invited to contribute to International Journal of Orthodontics because of my invaluable expertise and contribution to this field. Great job me!
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
I am very pleased to say that today—for the first time in my life—I have written Wednesday from scratch without misspelling it.
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
Lecture hall @UniTrento_DISI 🏔️
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
A student just sent me a very nice email thanking me for my teaching (assistantship), and man, I'm going to print it out, frame it, hang it on the wall right behind my laptop, and read it out loud several times a day.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Driving across the country from California to New York during winter I’m completely reevaluating temperatures — I’m now happy to see the car thermostat showing 30F
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Giulia Guidi
4 years
Today is Father's Day in Italy - I haven't seen mine in exactly 425 days. I can't wait to hug my family again. But for now I just wish them vaccinated and safe, we'll make up for lost time. I miss you & I love you.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
A fiend just sent me this and it’s so gorgeous—Can’t wait to be in Ithaca tomorrow to catch up with @CornellCIS colleagues for the rest of week and do some leaf peeping!
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
I climbed a mountain over the weekend for the first time! 🙃
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
SF pride 2022 🌈
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Just another morning walk in Ithaca
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Love this pic from my last trip to Italy (Jan 2020) —Grandma for scale.
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Giulia Guidi
5 months
Two years ago today! Time flies! ⁦ @aydoz ⁩ ⁦ @KathyYelick
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Dating another academic be like “following up on our discussion last night, here’s a Google Doc summarizing our vacation plan” via email
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
10 days to apply to the Equal Access to Application Assistance program at @Berkeley_EECS ! It's an excellent opportunity to get feedback on your PhD application before submitting it—RTs are welcome!
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Catherine Chen
2 years
If you are a prospective PhD student applying to @Berkeley_EECS , you can submit your application to EAAA for feedback until October 8th 2022 (ten days from today)!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
I had a nightmare last night. I dreamt that classes were starting soon and the chair told me I had to teach a second class, a “surprise” class on a topic only tangentially related to my research. That class was scheduled for 7 am on Fridays.
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
I'm preparing the schedule and material for the advanced parallel computing course I'll be teaching in the fall, and I have no idea how to fit so much cool stuff into 15 weeks. Please send good vibes and decision-making capacity.
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
I'm very excited to be a speaker for the "Graph Algorithms in the Exascale Era" minisymposium! Come by tomorrow, 1pm for Part I and 3 pm for Part II (PDT). #MS19 #SIAMPP22
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Marco Minutoli
3 years
PSA: There is a very interesting mini at #SIAMPP22 on "Graph Algorithms in the Exascale Era" with a great line up of speakers that will talk about very exciting graph problems. You don't want to miss it. #MS19
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
I'm looking forward to visiting @EPFL next week and giving a talk at @ICepfl (18 Aug, 10:15 CET, room BC 420) entitled "Sparse Matrices and High-Performance Computing Meet Biology" —meet me there if you're around and curious ;) tips on what to visit in Lausanne are very welcome!
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Higher salaries for grad students because I have to adopt more dogs.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
God I’m way past the age I can take a 5am flight and be alright. I lost 10 years of life when the alarm went off at 2.30am and it’ll take me 48h to recover—apologies to whoever will have to interact with me today and tomorrow.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
How do I tell my California native dog that doesn’t want to pee in the rain that we’re moving to New York in less than a month?
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
University sent me $12.60 of financial aid refund —Thank you?
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Apparently, my family is coming to California for the holidays and they’re bringing the rain with them from Northern Italy—I apologize on their behalf.
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
Ithaca's Cascadilla Gorge Trail — Can't beat this commute to work (and it's getting better as summer approaches)
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
emailing is a full time job
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Do you think I’m ready for a latte art competition?
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
I am not crying 🙃 I’m pretty sure I would not be here without the guidance of the right PhD advisor(s)! PhD advisor > University
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Aydın Buluç
2 years
Giulia has done so many things right that one day I hope to use her time in Berkeley as a primary example in a “how to succeed in grad school” presentation. It has been a real pleasure working with you so far, @giuliaguidi . Cornell is lucky to have you.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Here until Friday! Then, here until undefined starting January!
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Giulia Guidi
4 years
Getting a dog has been the best decision I've made since I started grad school —we can discuss my general decision-making ability another time. Grad students, adopt a puppy/kitty, you'll thank me later. Here's my fav shelter in the Bay Area @MiloFoundation .
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
It’s needless to say that I’m so grateful for the guidance that @aydoz and @KathyYelick gave me throughout my PhD and for the support from @DanRokhsar and many @Berkeley_EECS and @LBNLcs colleagues—I also want to thank @polimi and @necstlaboratory for initiating my career. 2/n
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
TGIF
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Glad to find out—today—that my 12/28/21 COVID test is negative, what a relief
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Giulia Guidi
5 years
Our paper "LOGAN: High-Performance GPU-Based X-Drop Long-Read Alignment" is now available on @arxiv : . Our code is publicly available on @github : .
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Giulia Guidi
5 years
Our paper "LOGAN: High-Performance GPU-Based X-Drop Long-Read Alignment" got into #IPDPS20 ! Our implementation achieves up to 181.6 GCUPS improving an application runtime by up to 10.6x. @AlbertoZeni , GG, M. Ellis, N. Ding, @santambr , S. Hofmeyr, @aydoz , L. Oliker, @KathyYelick
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Sieger sent this handsome boy to keep me company and give me love and support while he watches over us from puppy heaven—welcome to the pack, Mahler!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
ExaBiome @LBNLcs representatives at #SC22 during the Award Ceremony!
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Dude the pain of cross-compiling MPI and CUDA
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Ithaca at last!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
3 months old 💘 I’ll need a gym subscription if I want to keep carrying him around
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
I was thinking about the $20 bongo burger sandwich I often had for lunch in grad school yesterday when eating perfectly cooked spinach spätzle with speck for $12 in front of the CS department in Trento.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
mid-July vs today
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Giulia Guidi
1 year
Come on, seriously? This? 10’ walk from home? 😍
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
I'm not sold on pair programming, but pair debugging is the real deal. Going on a bug hunt with a buddy is so much better.
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
@sk_census @astrowizicist I luckily realized that before calling the cops but I did panic big time for 20 minutes!
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Giulia Guidi
2 years
Unrelated, New Mexico is pretty cool
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Giulia Guidi
3 years
Quite accurate
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