Wei Feinstein joined the HPCS team in 2018. As a user support, she has the passion of providing cutting-edge HPC technologies and services to the scientific research communities at LBNL and UC Berkeley. Prior to the Lab, she was a HPC consultant at LSU, where she assisted faculty, researchers and students from a wide range of scientific disciplines to optimize their simulation workflows, and port codes to computational accelerators, such as Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia GPU.
Wei has a research background in computational biology and bioinformatics. She was actively engaged in projects of protein structure modeling and ligand binding site identification and published papers in the field.
She holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences. Wei enjoys traveling, hiking and watching sports, especially horseback riding.