Get to know the “Lady of Fire”—a nickname Dr. Ilkay Altintas earned for her groundbreaking work using real-time data to predict and contain wildfires.

At UC San Diego, she is also the Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Founder and Director of the Workflows for Data Science (WoRDs) Center. Her research enabled work on drug testing simulations to isolate genes to fight cancer, creation of tools to build the world’s first commercial-scale fusion reactor, and design of modular workflows to analyze the human biome.

Ilkay is also a DSA board member and she routinely testifies before Members of Congress and Senate as well as at the White House, providing instruction on the impact and value of national investment in science.

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