Cherri M. Pancake is an ethnographer and computer scientist who works as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and Intel Faculty Fellow at Oregon State University,[1][2] and as the director of the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering.[3] She is known for her pioneering work on usability engineering for high performance computing.[4] In 2018 she was elected for a two-year term as president of the Association for Computing Machinery.[5][6]