Kary Ocaña
Affiliation: Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica
Country: Brazil
Workshop: Women on HPC
Bio
Kary Ocaña is a Senior Technologist I at the
National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) under the Ministry of
Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications (MCTIC). She was
recognized as a Young Scientist of the State by FAPERJ (2017-2022) and
completed postdoctoral research in Systems and Computing Engineering at
COPPE/UFRJ with FAPERJ and CAPES/FAPERJ funding. She holds a Ph.D. (2010)
and a Master’s degree (2006) in Cellular and Molecular Biology from FIOCRUZ,
and a Bachelor’s
degree (2002) in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from
UNMSM, with revalidation by UFRJ (2012).
Her work focuses on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, emphasizing comparative, evolutionary, and functional genomics, phylogenomics, and phylodynamics. Kary develops and applies advanced mathematical methods and computational tools for large-scale biological data analysis. She utilizes High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments, such as the Santos Dumont supercomputer, to conduct complex, integrated analyses that advance research on zoonoses and infectious diseases.