Heather Switzer
William & Mary
Department of Computer Science
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Email: hmswitzer AT wm DOT edu
Office: 107C McGlothlin-Street Hall
My Erdös number is 4.
I am a currently a sixth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the College of William & Mary, under Professor Andreas Stathopoulos. My research interests include numerical linear algebra, iterative methods, preconditioning techniques, trace approximation in lattice QCD, and HPC.
In 2015, I received my Associate's degree in General Studies at Richard Bland College in Petersburg, VA. Following this, I obtained my Bachelor's of Science as a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2018 at Longwood University in Farmville, VA, and my Master's degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Computational Science in 2020 from William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. I am expected to earn my Ph.D. in Computer Science in the summer of 2024.
The most recent copy of my CV can be found here.
Publications
Probing for the Trace Approximation of a Permuted Matrix Inverse Corresponding to a Lattice Displacement
SIAM SISC 2022 https://doi.org/10.1137/21M1422495 (PDF available here)
H. Switzer, A. Stathopoulos, E. Romero, J. Laeuchli, K. Orginos
Presentations
Oral Presentations
Exploring Performance Benefits of Sketched Krylov Methods in PRIMME
Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation with Application Conference (NASCA)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; July 2023
H. Switzer, A. Stathopoulos
Sketched Rayleigh-Ritz for Computing Many Eigenpairs
Graduate and Honors Research Symposium
The College of William & Mary; March 2023
H. Switzer, A. Stathopoulos
Probing for the Trace Estimation of a Matrix Inverse of a Lattice Discretization
Invited Colloquium
Longwood University; November 2022
H. Switzer, A. Stathopoulos, E. Romero, J. Laeuchli, K. Orginos
Thick Restarted Lanczos with Sketched Rayleigh-Ritz for Computing Many Eigenvalues
SIAM Annual Meeting
Pittsburg, PA; July 2022
H. Switzer, L. Skon, A. Stathopoulos
Finding Periods of Linear Recurrence Relations
Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference (SUMS)
James Madison University; October 2017
H. Switzer, J. Dymacek
Poster Presentations
Hierarchical Probing for the Trace of a Matrix Inverse
Student Poster Symposium
Lawrence Livermore National Lab; August 2019
H. Switzer
Finding Periods of Linear Recurrence Relations
Spring Presentation of Undergraduate Research
Longwood University; April 2017
H. Switzer, J. Dymacek
Professional Experience
| 2023 - | Year-Round CSRI Graduate Intern | Sandia National Lab | ||
| Spring 2023 | Teaching Fellow | William & Mary | ||
| 2020 - | Research Assistant | William & Mary | ||
| 2021 - 2021 | CASC Summer Graduate Intern | Lawrence Livermore National Lab | ||
| 2018 - 2020 | Teaching Assistant | William & Mary | ||
| 2019 - 2019 | Computing Summer Graduate Intern | Lawrence Livermore National Lab |
Awards and Fellowships
| July 2023 | Graduate Student Fellowship | Virginia Space Grant Consortium | ||
| May 2023 | Stephen K. Park Graduate Research Award | William & Mary | ||
| May 2023 | Graduate Student Association Travel Grant | William & Mary | ||
| May 2020 | Student Scholarship | Grace Hopper Celebration | ||
| August 2018, 2019 | Dean's Nomination Fellowship | William & Mary | ||
| May 2018 | Badger-Magnifico Award | Longwood University | ||
| November 2018 | Meritorious Award | SIMIODE Challenge (SCUDEM) | ||
| December 2017 | Research Grant | Longwood University CURIO Grant | ||
| August 2015 | Transfer Student Scholarship | Virginia's Community Colleges |
Involvement
| 2021 - 2023 | President | Computer Science Graduate Student Association | William & Mary | |||
| 2017 - 2018 | President | ACM Student Chapter | Longwood University | |||
| 2016 - 2018 | President | Math Club | Longwood University | |||
| 2021 - | Member | Women in HPC in Virginia (WHPC-VA) | William & Mary | |||
| 2021 - | Member | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | William & Mary | |||
| 2018 - | Member | Pi Mu Epsilon | Longwood University | |||
| 2017 - | Member | Upsilon Pi Epsilon | Longwood University |