Hello!

I am a computational physicist, with a PhD in Applied Physics from Colorado School of Mines (Mines), where I am currently employed as Assistant Director of Research Computing. My main focus is overseeing and actively participating in the health and usefulness of Mines’ three high performance computing clusters; in particular their ability to perform well and meet our researchers’ (current and future) computational needs.

Maintaining one’s relevance in a given field requires engagement beyond one’s institution. I am enthusiastically committed to the larger Research Computing & Data (RC&D) community, and began by joining the Campus Champions in 2017. I currently serve on the CC Leadership Team, actively administer the Ask.CI Q&A website and am working toward a unified representation of the RC&D community with other forward-looking groups. Mines’ HPC team has faithfully represented Mines with a booth at SC, which I’ve helped organize and execute since 2012, PEARC is an annual event, and regionally, I am an executive board member of Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC).

Besides high performance computing, my interests run to the theoretical; including quantum information, the flow of time (general relativity, the uncertainty principle, entropy) and actinide behavior.

I am grateful and excited to be part of the collective RC&D movement during this nascent time and I take immense pleasure in being able to contribute to its growth and emergence as an impactful profession in so many fields of scientific research. To me, Ask.CI is an integral part of our success, and I consider it a great privilege to partake!