Melanie E. Cornelius

My name is Melanie Cornelius. I’m a fully-qualified PhD candidate in HPC at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I work in the SPEAR lab. I graduate in May 2027. I’m excited to be here!

I’m employed full-time as a research aide at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, part of Argonne National Laboratory, and I teach at Loyola University Chicago.

This Fall, 2026, I’m teaching COMP 464, High Performance Computing. If you’re here for course information, head over to the teaching page.

• COMP 464 — High Performance Computing · Loyola University Chicago · Fall 2026
• COMP 125 — Visual Information Processing · Loyola University Chicago · Spring 2026
• COMP 150 — Introduction to Computing · Loyola University Chicago · Spring 2026
• CS 351 — Systems Programming · Illinois Institute of Technology · Fall 2023

I earned a BS in physics (minor in CS) and a MS in CS from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2016 and 2018, respectively.

I like HPC. My focus is on performance monitoring/analytics, and the lofty goal is to make HPC work better for everyone. I focus on work with intersecting theory and empiricism. I have a weird obsession with making graphs as self-explanatory as possible. I start to whither away if I go too long without teaching. When I’m not spending time with my family, I also garden (weirdly common in CS). I read a lot, sometimes even for fun! Old-school SciFi is my thing, and also Dresden Files. Predictibly, I like coffee too much.

If you want to chat, send me an email or schedule something via calendy.