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Katherine Rasmussen

RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Katherine has a M.A. in Linguistics and is a software developer with experience in grammars and compilers. She has leveraged past experience in Mobile Assisted Language Learning to transition into working in compiler development and various programming languages. Katherine has experience with parsing and disambiguating old computer languages, as well as working with processing and building abstract syntax trees (ASTs) for compiler frontends. She has contributed code related to the Fortran language to open-source compiler projects, including to the LLVM Fortran compiler project Flang. She is also a regular contributor to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s open-source compiler-based infrastructure for building source-to-source transformations and analysis tools, ROSE.