Het Mankad is currently a Research Scientist in the Computational Science and Math division at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) , USA. Here she works on high performance code generation for math libraries. In particular, she works on developing ProtoX, which is a domain specific language with Proto in the frontend and SPIRAL in the backend. Before joining ORNL, Dr. Mankad was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, USA. She has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas at Dallas, where she worked on problems in reservoir simulation.