Sunday 27 April 2025
NSF Program Officer
Amy Apon has been a Program Director in the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure since January 2023. She is the lead Program Director for the Campus Cyberinfrastructure program. Apon joined NSF through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act in January 2023 from Clemson University. At Clemson, she served as Chair of the Computer Science Division and later as Director of the School of Computing. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and conducts research in parallel and distributed computing systems.
Research Computing Facilitator (CHTC) - University of Wisconson - Madison
Christina Koch is a Research Computing Facilitator at CHTC (the Center for High Throughput Computing) housed at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Part of her role includes supporting researchers across the United States who would benefit from scaling up their work, using high throughput computing capacity like that provided by the national Open Science Pool and PATh Facility. She believes computing is for everyone (not just people who have done it for a long time) and loves to facilitate “lightbulb” moments where someone learns something new
Director of SDSC - University of California, San Diego
Frank Würthwein is the director of SDSC and a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Physics. His research focuses on experimental particle physics, particularly the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He also serves as executive director of the Open Science Grid.
Executive Director of Research Computing and OSCER - University of Oklahoma
Dr. Henry Neeman is the Executive Director of Research Computing at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He co-leads several initiatives, including the OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative and the Supercomputing in Plain English training program.
Cyberinfrastructure Engineer and HPC Manager - University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeffrey D. Weekley is a cyberinfrastructure engineer and HPC manager at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he oversees the Hummingbird high-performance computing cluster. With expertise in research computing, cybersecurity, and advanced computing infrastructure, he plays a key role in supporting computational research and ensuring compliance with institutional and federal standards. Weekley is actively involved in developing policies for research cybersecurity, expanding HPC resources, and integrating emerging technologies to enhance scientific computing capabilities. He also contributes to national research initiatives, including the National Research Platform and Campus Research Computing Consortium. Prior to joining UC Santa Cruz, he was the founding Director of Research Computing at UC Merced and spent almost 20 years as research faculty at the MOVES Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer - University of California, Merced
Nick Dugan is the Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer at UC Merced. He has served in various IT roles over nearly 25 years in the UC system. He holds a master’s degree in information management from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UC Santa Cruz.
Founder, Principal Consultant - Semper Cogito
Patrick Schmitz is Founder and Principal Consultant at Semper Cogito, providing Strategic technology consulting in Academic Research IT, Museums, Archives, and Research collections. Prior to this, he spent 12 years at UC Berkeley as Associate Director of Research IT for Architecture and Strategy, providing IT strategy and solutions in support of campus research; and Director of Berkeley Research Computing. In addition to his experience in academia, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and CWI in Amsterdam, and co-founded a series of tech startups. Schmitz is an active contributor to various CaRCC working groups, including those on the CaRCC Capabilities Model and RCD Career Arcs
Director, Cyberinfrastructure and Research Technologies (CIRT) - University of California, Merced
Sarvani Chadalapaka is the PI of CENVAL-ARC and Director of CIRT at UC Merced, leading high-performance computing and research data infrastructure initiatives. She serves on the EDUCAUSE RCD Steering Committee and is an active leader in research computing communities.
