Dr. Sally Ellingson, an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics, works with the Cancer Research Informatics Shared Resource Facility of the University of Kentucky’s Markey Cancer Center. She is a computational scientist working at the intersection of computational biology, informatics, and high-performance computing. She has undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology. She obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory under a fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation in computational biology. Dr. Ellingson engages in mentoring and outreach, especially for underrepresented groups in computational sciences.