Nicole Brewer
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Mail code: 4601Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentHistory and Philosophy of Science
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Nicole is a first year PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at ASU. Her undergraduate degree is in Mathematics with Computer Science from Purdue University where she used HPC clusters to conduct research in combinatorial game theory. Upon graduation she accepted a position as a full-time software engineer at Purdue University where she developed web applications as tools and platforms for scientific research. Her transition to HPS was inspired by interest in the social and technical limitations of computational reproducibility in her communities. Nicole is researching what values, such as reproducibility, reusability, transparency, and openness, have been and should be embodied by our standards of practice in the computational sciences. In doing so, she will use computational methods and HPC systems to analyze large citation networks (and other network representations of scientific corpora), curate datasets, and visualize networks. She will support her quantitative methods with historical and ethnographic research.
- B.S. Mathematics with Computer Science, Purdue University
As a former research software engineer, Nicole is interested in understanding, updating, and improving the complex system of science to better accommodate computational methods in the information age. She seeks to improve science a a whole by working with with domain sciences to establish and spread developing standards in computational science. Additionally she is passionate about improving the academic publishing system to better accommodate computational artifacts and thereby improve the sustainability and reproducibility of research codes.
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Brewer, N., Campbell, R., Kalyanam, R., Luk, K. I., Song, C. X., & Zhao, L. (2022). Benefits and limitations of jupyter-based scientific web applications. 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on eScience (Forthcoming).
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Brewer, N., Kim, H., Li, C., Anderson, H., Lanum, J., Cheoh, J., Hillery, B., & Overmyer, T. (2019). Student cluster competition 2018, team ada six of purdue university: Reproducing extreme scale multi-physics simulations of tsunamigenic 2004 sumatra megathrust earthquake on intel skylake architecture. Parallel Computing, 90, 102565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2019.102565
Software Engineering Topics Relevant to eScience (Invited Panelist), eScience2022, SaltLakeCity, UT.
How to Recruit and Sustain a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce: A Case Study (Invited Panelist), International RSE Day 2021, Virtual.
Leveraging Traits for Highly Interactive Computational Tools in Jupyter (Abstract, VideoPresentation), Gateways 2021, Virtual.
Classification of Periodicity in Subtraction Game Sequences (Poster), PEARC18, Pittsburg, PA.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CAS 590 | Reading and Conference |
2025 Spring
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| CAS 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 School of Life Science Fellowship ($2,500), Arizona State University
2021 UPSS Delegate ($500), Philosophy of Science Biennial Meeting
2020 Young Professional of the Year ($500), Science Gateways Community Institute
2018 Travel Grant ($500), XSEDE
2018 Phil Andrews Award, Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference
Research Software Engineer, ITaP Research Computing, Purdue University, Feb 2019 - May 2022
Software Verification Engineer, Aptiv, West Lafayette, Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
Steering Committee Member, United States Research Software Engineering Association, Jan 2022 - Present.
Co-Chair, Women in High Performance Computing at Purdue University, June 2020 - May 2022