CIP Leadership Team
Phil Andrews
Phil Andrews is Director of High End Computing Technologies at SDSC. He is also co-Managing Director of the Cyberinfrastructure Partnership and the SDSC TeraGrid GIG lead.
John Towns
John Towns is the Senior Associate Director for the Persistent Infrastructure Directorate at NCSA. He is also the co-Managing Director of the Cyberinfrastructure Partnership, a collaborative effort in cyberinfrastructure with SDSC, the TeraGrid and others.
Bryan Banister
Bryan Banister is the manager of the Storage Systems and Production Servers group in SDSC's Production Systems Division. Within CIP, he is SDSC lead for the Resource Evaluation and Planning group.
Jim Barlow
Jim Barlow is the Senior Security Engineer leading NCSA’s Security Operation Division, which isresponsible for daily operational security and policy issues and also responds to computer security incidents and intrusions.
Chaitan Baru
Chaitan Baru is Project Director for the Geosciences Network (GEON, www.geongrid.org), co-Director of the National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research (NLADR, www.nladr.org), and Division Director, Science R&D, San Diego Supercomputer Center (scirad.sdsc.edu.
Diane Baxter
Diane Baxter is the Education Director at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, responsible for development and implementation of education and outreach programs for K-undergraduate students and teachers. She also identifies directions for future growth of programs and partnerships in education and outreach.
Karan Bhatia
Karan Bhatia is the leader of the Grid Development Group within SDSC's Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory and the SDSC lead for CIP's Middleware Infrastructure Activities.
Donna Cox
Donna Cox leads NCSA's Visualization Division and is a professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Steve Cutchin
Steve Cutchin leads the Visualization Services Group in SDSC's User Services and Development Division.
Jim D'Aoust
Jim D'Aoust is the co-Project Manager for the Cyberinfrastructure Partnership and supports SDSC's TeraGrid GIG and RP Project Management team.
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. He is also director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory and the Center for Information Technology Research and is a Distinguished Member of the research staff in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
David Hart
David Hart is the SDSC Allocations Coordinator and Assistant Director within User Services and Development. He is the SDSC lead for CIP's User Engagements focus area.
Victor Hazlewood
Victor is the Information Security Officer of SDSC and Manager of both the Security Technologies and Datacenter Operations groups. Victor is the co-lead of the CIP Security Team which is made up of security professionals from both NCSA and SDSC. The CIP Security Team is responsible for working to improve the security posture of each CIP partner, providing outreach for cyberinfrastructure security technologies and for CIP intrusion detection and incident response.
Doru Marcusiu
Doru Marcusiu is the Assistant Director in charge of NCSA's Cyberenvironments Division, which includes the Grid Application User Support Group and the Grid Services Administration Group. These groups provide support to application scientists in the development of grid applications and the use of grid technologies and evaluate, test, deploy, and support grid middleware in order to provide an interoperable, reliable, and persistent set of services and capabilities on NCSA high-performance computing systems.
Mike Pflugmacher
Mike Pflugmacher is the Assistant Director in charge of NCSA’s High-End Computing Division, which is responsible for keeping NCSA's computing infrastructure at a state-of-the-art level from desktop through supercomputer.
Greg Pluta
Greg Pluta is the co-Project Manager for the Cyberinfrastructure Partnership. He is also the project manager for the Persistent Infrastructure directorate at NCSA.
Michael Welge
Mike Welge leads NCSA's Data Division, which comprises all of the center's activities that focus on high-performance, high-volume scientific data storage and applications.
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
SDSC Director of Consulting, Documentation and Training in the User Services division, Nancy has been working with high-end computing users at SDSC since 1993. She is the CIP lead for Coordinated User Services and the TeraGrid Area Director for Science Gateways.
Edee Wiziecki
Edee Wiziecki is the coordinator of education programs at NCSA and is responsible for the development and implementation of K-16 educational programs as well as professional development programs for educators.
The CyberInfrastructure Partnership is funded by the National Science Foundation and includes the following partners: NCSA and SDSC.