RCAC - Research Computing Staff

Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

The RCAC team consists of students and experts in high-performance computing, data science, software engineering, and more.
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Research Computing Staff

RCAC Students

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Staff Managers

Meet the managers who lead and support the RCAC research computing team.

Executive Director

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Welcome to RCAC! Our team is dedicated to providing world-class research computing and cyberinfrastructure services to support breakthrough discoveries and innovations.

Directors

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Meet members of the RCAC research computing team.

Alan R O'Cull

Associate Research Software Engineer

Alexander David Younts

Principal Research Engineer

Amanda Lynn Hassenplug

Senior Research Operations Administrator

Email:: ahassenp@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Project Management, Program Management, Student Programming, ANVIL Engagement, Compensation, Data Analysis, Reporting, and Human Resources

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Amanda M Warren-Glowe

Program Manager, Envision Center

Amiya K Maji

Lead Computational Scientist

Arun S Seetharam

Lead Bioinformatics Scientist

Email:: aseethar@purdue.edu
Specialty:: genome assembly, gene annotation, comparative and population genomics, NGS data analyses, Scientific Applications, HPC Education

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Ashish

Senior Research Data Scientist

Email:: ashish@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Applied Data Science, High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI Systems for Research and Education

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Bithi De

Senior Computational Scientist

Email:: bde@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Computational Climate/Atmospheric Science, HPC, Data management, Data Visualizations, Scientific Applications, Climate&AI,

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Brandon Shigeki Poindexter

Associate Research Solutions Engineer

Charles D Fultz

Research Solutions Engineer

Charles William Christoffer

Computational Life Sciences Lead

Christopher A Bentley

Assistant Director - Research Software Engineering

Christopher J Orr

Senior Research Solutions Engineer

Christopher S Thompson

Lead Software Engineer

Clint Matthew Hanthorn

Software Engineer

Dane Gregory Deemer

Senior Computational Scientist

Daniel Mathias Madren

Senior Research Development Administrator

Email:: dmadren@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Research Software Engineering Center Program Management and Business Development, RSE Point of Contact

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Dashiell Lj Lumas

Senior Research Solutions Engineer

David C LeFevre

Research Solutions Engineer

David Quan Liu

Dominic Jeffrey Yoder

Associate Research Solutions Engineer

Douglas Alan Schultz

Senior Manager, Research Computing Support Services

Email:: schultzy@purdue.edu
Specialty:: End Use Support, Process Improvement, Project Management, Scientific Applications

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Elham jebalbarezi sarbijan

Lead Research AI Scientist

Email:: ejebalba@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, MultiModal Learning, Data Science, AI Education

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Eric W Adams

Lead Research Operations Administrator, Education

Erik S Gough

Senior Research Scientist

Frank C Bakhit

Research Solutions Engineer

Geoffrey R Lentner

Principal AI Scientist

Email:: glentner@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Astrophysics, Research Software Engineering, HPC Education

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George Takahashi

Principal Visualization Scientist

Guangzhen Jin

Senior Computational Scientist

Email:: jin456@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Ocean Science, Fluid Dynamics, Data Assimilation, Data Visualization, Scientific Applications

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Haniye Kashgarani

Senior AI Scientist

Email:: hkashgar@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Scientific Applications, Optimization

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I Luk Kim

Research Scientist

Ibrahem Alshybani

Senior Computational Scientist

Jacob C Verburgt

Senior AI Applications Scientist

Email:: verburgt@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Bioinformatics, GPU Applications, AI, Life Sciences, Computational Biology

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Jacob Wayne Roberts

Lead Research Solutions Engineer

Jaewoo Shin

Research Scientist

Jake Adam White

Visual Solutions Engineer

Jonathan Reid Poole

Technical Writer

Jorge Ivan Fuentes Rosado

Senior Research Analyst

Joseph S Levell

Senior Manager - Scientific Applications

Joshua L Remender

HPC Support Specialist

Julian J Triveri

Associate Research Software Engineer

Email:: jtriveri@purdue.edu
Specialty:: 3D artwork / graphics for realtime applications and Unity scripting, Research Software Engineering, Envision Center

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Jungha Woo

Lead Software Engineer

Katherine Francis Gunderson

Digital Content Specialist

Kevin D Colby

Senior Research Data Scientist

Lan Zhao

Senior Research Scientist

List Serve

Luke James Monroe

Associate Research Solutions Engineer

Michael Allan Carlson

Senior Computational Scientist

Michael Timothy Gravina

Senior Research Software Engineer

Mihir Ahlawat

Senior AI Scientist

Naga Haritha Cherukuri

Nannan Shan

Senior Computational Scientist

Email:: nshan@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Materials Modeling, Computational Chemistry, Cheminformatics, Workflow Automation, Scientific Applications, HPC Education

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Nicholas P Smith

Lead Research Solutions Engineer

Pascal Meunier

Lead Research Software Engineer

Patrick T Finnegan

Lead Systems Engineer

Paul Andrew Branham

Industry Business Development Director

Primus Chimdia Kabuo

Senior Research Software Engineer

Ramon L Williamson II

Senior Storage Administrator

Rick J Irvine

Storage Administrator

Robert A Campbell

Lead Software Engineer

Rosalie Aliya Wilfong

Senior Research Data Facilitator

Ryan T DeRue

Senior Computational Scientist

Samuel A Weekly

Associate Research Solutions Engineer

Steckel Kira Bleier

Executive Assistant

Stefan R Piperov

Senior Scientific Applications Analyst

Email:: spiperov@purdue.edu
Specialty:: Experimental High Energy Physics Computing, CMS Tier-2 Support, HPC Support

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Suzanna Gardner

Sr. Research Operations Administrator, Outreach & Engagement

Email:: gardn161@purdue.edu
Specialty:: ANVIL Outreach & Engagement, K-12 Student Programming, Project Management, Program Management.

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Taylor Rose Graham

Associate Hardware Research Solutions Engineer

Tomas Ratkus

Research Solutions Engineer

Vineeth Gundeti

Research Software Engineer, Senior

Xiao Liu

Senior Computational Scientist

Email:: liu4201@purdue.edu
Specialty:: GIS, AI, GeoAI, Hydrologic Modeling, Numerical Modeling, Scientific Applications, HPC Education

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