SDSC Profiles (Archive)
SDSC Profiles feature Center staff members in short, question-and-answer vignettes that detail their jobs at SDSC as well as some personal notes.
Natasha Balac is responsible for the leadership and management of the Data Applications and Services group at SDSC. This group supports DataCentral, the first national program of its kind to host and make available significant research and community data collections and databases.
Chaitan Baru is the director of SDSC’s Science R&D Division and also directs the SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center.
Diane Baxter is the Director of Education at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD. Before joining SDSC in February of 2005, she developed environmental science education programs at the North Carolina Aquarium, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, the Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research, and Quail Botanical Gardens.
Fran Berman is approaching her 5-year anniversary as Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). In this interview, Berman discusses SDSC’s forward momentum, the impact of computers and data on interdisciplinary research, the challenges of Center leadership, and an ongoing commitment to helping women in science and engineering.
Hans-Werner Braun is the Principal Investigator of the NSF-supported High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), which focuses on innovative uses of wireless networking in hard-to-reach areas.
kc claffy is the principal investigator for the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) which is based at SDSC and provides tools and analyses to promote a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure.
Jeanne Ferrante and Francine Berman sat down together, at the start of the Fall 2006 quarter, to talk about pressing issues facing women in engineering.
Marye Anne Fox, a world-renowned chemist, is the 7th Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and Professor of Chemistry.
Mary Hart, SDSC’s Division Director of Administration and Operations, leads and manages the center’s business office, human relations activities, desktop services group and physical facilities. In addition, she is currently leading the design and planning of a new SDSC building.
John Helly is Laboratory Director for the Earth and Environmental Sciences at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He and his team conduct research in the application of high-performance computing resources to environmental and earth science problems ranging from data acquisition to modeling and analysis – especially including quantitative visualization.
Anke Kamrath is SDSC’s division director for user services and development as well as the director of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation's Cyberinfrastructure Center. Otherwise known as NEESit, this group works to advance the state of earthquake engineering in research and in practice.
Amit Majumdar is the group leader of SDSC's Scientific Computing Applications group and directs the Strategic Applications Collaboration (SAC) program in the User Services division.
Reagan Moore is Director of the Knowledge and SRB Lab at SDSC. He coordinates research efforts in the development of massive data analysis systems, scientific data publication systems, and persistent archives.
Richard Moore is SDSC’s Big Kahuna of Production Systems, leading the team that procures, operates, maintains and manages the center’s world-class storage, data, networking and high-performance computing systems.
Wayne Pfeiffer is a Distinguished Scientist at SDSC where he does research in supercomputer performance analysis.
Vijay Samalam, SDSC's Executive Director, manages the center's day-to-day activities.
Subhashini Sivagnanam is coordinating this year's SDSC Summer Institute. She also manages the Academic Associates Program and edits the SDSC Thread newsletter in the User Services group.
Allan Snavely is the Director of the Performance Modeling and Characterization (PMaC) Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Assistant Adjunct Professor for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
Karen Stocks is a research scientist at SDSC pursuing interdisciplinary research at the interface of biological oceanography and information technology.
Dallas Thornton is the Division Director, Cyberinfrastructure Services for the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego.
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr is Director of Consulting, Training & Documentation at SDSC. The Consulting and Training Group provides front-line support for SDSC's production computing resources.
