She manages the high-performance computing (HPC) services for the cancer center through the Cancer Research Informatics Shared Resource Facility. Her specialty is the utilization of HPC in computational biology with experience working on some of the largest supercomputers in the world at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Ellingson is a computational scientist with a formal multi-disciplinary training through a computational biology IGERT at the University of Tennessee (UT), Scalable Computing and Leading Edge Innovative Technology (SCALE-IT). She is very active in the HPC community and is involved with the organization of Supercomputing, the leading conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.