Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Hakizumwami Birali Runesha - President
Assistant Vice President, Research Computing; Director, Research Computing Center, University of Chicago
runesha@uchicago.edu

Ben Rogers - Immediate Past-President
Director, Research Services, University of Iowa
ben-rogers@uiowa.edu

Karen Tomko - Executive Board
Scientific Applications Group Manager, Ohio Supercomputer Center
ktomko@osc.edu

Jim Coyle - Executive Board
Director of HPC Operations, High Performance Computing Group
jjc@iastate.edu

Joe Paris - Executive Board
Research Computing Architect, Northwestern University
j-paris@northwestern.edu

Sharon Broude Geva
Director of Advanced Research Computing (ARC) at the University of Michigan
sgeva@umich.edu

Paul Wilson
Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the University of Wisconsin-Madison
wilsonp@engr.wisc.edu


Board Members

Linda Akli
Assistant Director of IT Teaching, Education and Outreach (TE&O) Initiative, SURA
akli@sura.org

Moussa Ayyash
IT Program Coordinator, Chicago State University
mayyash@csu.edu

Ray Bair
Senior Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
rbair@anl.gov

Mike Barker
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Computing, Renaissance Computing Institute
michael_barker@unc.edu

Lawrence "Bud" Bergie
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
lbergie@imsa.edu

Hakizumwami Birali Runesha
Assistant Vice President, Research Computing; Director, Research Computing Center, University of Chicago
runesha@uchicago.edu

Stan Blank
Chair of Science/Computer Science, Wayne City High School
sblank@accessus.net

Steve Brandt
Louisiana State University
sbrandt@cct.lsu.edu

Sharon Broude Geva
Director for Advance Research Computing, University of Michigan
sgeva@umich.edu

Maxine Brown
Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago
maxine@uic.edu

James Coyle
Director of HPC Operations, High Performance Computing Group
jjc@iastate.edu

Gary Crane
Director, IT Initiatives, SURA
gcrane@sura.org

Said Elghobashi
Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine
selghoba@uci.edu

Jenni Evans
Interim Director, Institute for Cyberscience and Advanced Computing Infrastructure, Pennsylvania State University
Jenni.Evans@psu.edu

Nigel Lockyer
Laboratory Director, Fermi National Laboratory
lockyer@fnal.gov

Melanie Loots
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
mloots@illinois.edu

Kenneth Merz
Director of the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, Michigan State University
merzjrke@msu.edu

Maria Mobasseri
Director, Data Systems and Development, Parkland College
mmobasseri@parkland.edu

Jaroslaw (Jarek) Nabrzyski
Director, Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame
naber@nd.edu

Claudia Neuhauser
Director, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
neuha001@umn.edu

Robert Panoff
Executive Director, Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
rpanoff@shodor.org

Joe Paris
Research Computing Architect, Northwestern University
j-paris@northwestern.edu

Marlon Pierce
Assistant Director, Science Gateways Group in Research Technologies Applications, Indiana University
mpierce@cs.indiana.edu

John Sarrao
Associate Director for Theory, Simulation, and Computation, Los Alamos National Lab
sarrao@lanl.gov

Alejandro Strachan
Professor, Materials Engineering, Purdue University
strachan@purdue.edu

Terence Sullivan
Technology Director, Shiloh CUSD #1
tsulliva@comwares.net

Karen Tomko
Scientific Applications Group Manager, Ohio Supercomputer Center
ktomko@osc.edu

Renata Wentzcovitch
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Columbia University
rmw2150@columbia.edu

Paul Wilson
Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
wilsonp@engr.wisc.edu