Jessica Ray

Dr. Jessica Ray is a technical staff member in the Cyber Operations and Analysis Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She previously worked in the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group beginning in 2012, where her initial research was on automatic speech recognition (ASR), with a primary focus on the integration of deep neural networks into ASR systems. In particular, her work dealt with utilizing GPUs for efficiently training these networks. This foray into GPUs shifted her research focus toward developing high-performance computing tools for domain-specific applications.

In 2015, Ray took a brief hiatus from Lincoln Laboratory to begin her PhD degree at MIT. In 2017, she rejoined Lincoln Laboratory as a Lincoln Scholar while continuing her studies. At MIT, she is a member of the COMMIT group under Prof. Saman Amarasinghe, where her PhD research focuses on developing a high-performance domain-specific language and compiler for implementing data compression algorithms. Her master’s thesis was on implementing a heterogeneous distributed code generator for a polyhedral compiler.

Ray received her BS degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012 and her MS degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2018.