GOOD 2025

Senior Software Engineer

I have spent my professional career mainly in the UK, working for companies like Accenture, The Financial Times and The Department for Work and Pensions.

Currently working with Harvard as part of the IQSS Research Computing team leading the development efforts in IQSS for the customizations and contributions to the Open OnDemand project.

I am Ahmad Sheikhzada, technical support manager at University of Virginia Research Computing organization. I hold a Ph.D. in computational condensed matter physics.

Alan Chalker, Ph.D., is Director of Strategic Programs at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). In this role he is responsible for many of OSC’s innovative efforts and initiatives, including in the areas of business development and relationship management. Chalker also coordinates many of the center’s grant proposals and manages a variety of research projects, as well as the Open OnDemand platform, which is utilized by research computing centers worldwide.

Alyza Rosario is a Senior Support Analyst at University of British Columbia's Advanced Research Computing (ARC) group, assisting researchers in effectively using ARC technology and resources. She also led the testing phase for Open OnDemand’s deployment.

Arturo Gimeno González is an HPC Engineer at Do It Now, where he has been working for the past three years. He holds a degree in Networked Computer Systems Administration (ASIX) from the Institut Tecnològic de Barcelona.
As part of the support team, Arturo is responsible for handling tickets from various clients in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) field, which use Open OnDemand to make it easier for users who are not familiar with Linux system. His work includes troubleshooting issues, optimizing environments, and compiling applications using EasyBuild, ensuring that each software is correctly configured and tailored to the specific needs of each client.
His focus is on delivering efficient and customized solutions, guaranteeing maxim

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Dr. Christopher S. Simmons is Cambridge Computer Services’ Scientist in Residence responsible for providing thought leadership for clients and cultivating relationships in our industry. He has over 25 years of experience in all facets of computational science and high performance computing. Dr. Simmons earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Physical Chemistry with an emphasis in Computational Quantum Mechanics and is the Project Lead for OpenHPC.

Christian is an HPC Engineer at Do It Now's R&D department. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of A Coruña and a Master’s in High-Performance Computing (HPC) from UDC and USC. After three years as a full-stack developer, he shifted to HPC, driven by its potential and constant evolution. At Do It Now, he works on projects to develop new solutions for the HPC ecosystem. His focus on Open OnDemand (OOD) includes customized installations tailored to each client’s needs, advising on environments and configurations, integrating custom apps and existing tools, and ensuring seamless, efficient deployments adapted to each case. His goal is to improve usability and performance while simplifying access to HPC resources.

Hi! I am a ~10 years experiencend bioinformatician who worked for the University of Tor Vergata (Rome, IT), EMBL-EBI (Cambridge, UK), Wayne State University (Detroit, MI, US) and IFOM (Milan, IT).
Right now I am working as Bioinformatics Engineer at IFOM at Research Computing and Data Science (RCDS) unit, where I discovered Open OnDemand.

Dean Anderson is an HPC Systems Administrator at Brigham Young University where he has worked for over 25 years.

Dori is a senior systems administrator at the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research. She manages the help desk team, is responsible for the Open OnDemand service, and is the project manager for the ColdFront resource and allocations management portal (https://github.com/ubccr/coldfront). You may have heard her at HPC conferences and other community events evangelizing the trifecta of cyberinfrastructure tools - ColdFront, Open OnDemand, and Open XDMoD.

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Director of Customer Engagement, Globus

Gulustan Dogan is an assistant professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington in Computer Science department. She worked at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey as an Associate Professor. She worked at NetApp and Intel as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from City University of New York. She received her B.Sc degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She is one of the founding members of Turkish Women in Computing (TWIC), a Systers community affiliated with Anita Borg Institute. She also serves as Wilmington Ambassador of Women In Data Science Stanford.

Harry is a junior medical doctor in Western Australia working in internal medicine and a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia investigating the use of artificial intelligence in paediatric anaesthesia. His Honours thesis was in using Computer Vision for myeloproliferative neoplasms. He has previously been a student at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and is a sysadmin of MERLIN, a small GPU research cluster located within Perth Children's Hospital for research on sensitive healthcare data. His research interests encompass large language models, digital health and computer vision.

I am a systems administrator at Mississippi State University, supporting users of a variety of backgrounds and research interests. Mississippi State supports multiple federal agencies and have managed multiple Top500 systems.

Jacob Boschee is a Systems Administrator with the Advanced Research Computing group at UBC. He began his background in systems administration at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology where he maintained the research cluster on campus while completing his PhD in Physics. His research background is in quantum computing, phononics, and computational modelling.

As a part of UBC ARC he assists researchers with utilizing the system and developing new services that can support researchers of all backgrounds and skill levels.

Jason Simms is the Research Computing Manager at Swarthmore College. Prior to that, he had a similar role at Lafayette College for several years and also worked in academic computing at Wesleyan University. He is a member of the Campus Champions leadership team and also is active within the ERN, CASC, CaRCC, and CyberAmbassador communities. He earned a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology, an M.P.H. in Environmental Health, and a graduate certificate in Geographical Information Systems, all from the University of South Florida. He also earned an M.A. in Anthropology and a B.A. in Classics from the University of Tennessee. When not working in ITS, he teaches courses on ancient Classical and Near-Eastern Civilizations at Lafayette College.

Jeaime Powell is a dedicated educator and advocate for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workforce development. As a key figure in the HackHPC initiative, he has played a pivotal role in organizing and facilitating numerous codeathons and hackathons aimed at bridging the skills gap in the HPC field. These time-bounded events bring together students, mentors, and industry experts, offering intensive training in applied HPC skills.

Software Engineer with FAS Academic Technology at Harvard

I spent 24 years in the Army as a pilot, doing IT tasks for the Army and experimenting with Linux and networks at home. I earned a Computer Science and IT Management degree while serving in the military, transitioning to an IT career after leaving the service. After working a couple of different networking and security positions for a few years, I started working as a Linux Systems Administrator. I spent 3 years working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) and then transitioned to the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research (ICER) at MSU and High Performance Computing in 2020.

John-Paul Robinson is an HPC Architect with the Research Computing organization at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has multiple decades of experience building distributed systems to support science.

Senior HPC Architect for Arizona State University's Research Computing.

Jonathan Halverson is the Training Lead for the Princeton Institute of Computational Science and Engineering at Princeton University.

Karen Tomko, Ph.D., serves as Director of Research Software Applications and Manager of the Scientific Applications group at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. Tomko also serves on the steering committee for the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium and is a member of the leadership team for the ICICLE AI institute. Her research interests include communication runtimes, application parallelization and tuning, and cyberinfrastructure for AI.

Kyriakos Tsoukalas, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of Research and High Performance Computing at Colgate University. In his role, Kyriakos aims to facilitate and enable faculty, staff, and students to conduct research and to provide high-performance and high-throughput computing resources. He is an experienced solutions architect and manager with over 15 years of methodically solving problems across cybersecurity, server administration, and web development. He manages the Open OnDemand environment available on Colgate's supercomputer.

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I am leading the High Performance Computing Area of the University of Sonora (ACARUS) and I am also a lecturer at Universidad de Sonora. I had produced various manuscripts detailing advances and results from research projects in which I had been involved in topics as HPC, geographic information systems applied in climatology, oceanography, ecology, among others. I had organized, attended, and participated as a speaker in national and international academic conferences and events related to high-performance computing and the biological and natural sciences. I am a member of the Mexican Network of Supercomputing/CONAHCYT and I am is a candidate for National Researcher in SNI-CONAHCYT.

Maureen Dougherty is the Project Coordinator for the Ecosystem for Research Networking (ERN), a member of the Steering Committee, and project manager for the ERN CryoEM Remote Instrument Access Pilot Project. As the former director for the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Southern California for over ten years, she was responsible for the advancement of the institution’s private research cluster, associated storage and supporting research computing across all science domains and university campuses. Grants associated in the development of multi-institutional collaborative efforts in the areas of advanced cyber-infrastructure facilitation and advanced networking projects.

I have been in the server technology field for 18 years primarily focusing on new and forward looking technologies. From they days before virtualization to the newest and upcoming AI solutions I have been around to see how technology impacts the world.

I am an Linux HPC Systems Administrator with over 5 years of experience. I have worked on over half a dozen entirely different clusters for various Universities and projects. In that time, I have deployed OOD over a dozen times, each one having its own uniqueness. I have worked with OOD since version 1.6 and during that time have deployed many apps as well as writing custom ones and initializers.

Nick Choi is a product manager at MathWorks focusing on integrations between MATLAB and various third party environments such as Open OnDemand, Jupyter and VS Code.

Owen Cochell is a senior undergraduate student at Michigan State University. He works for the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research at MSU, which manages the on campus HPCC to accelerate research activities. Open OnDemand is used extensively at ICER to simplify the process of interacting with the HPCC, allowing for non-technical users and groups to utilize it's resources.

Paula joined FAS Research Computing in March 2022 and has been involved in user training, software installation and optimization, Open OnDemand app development, and storage benchmarking. Before joining Harvard, she worked on a wide range of computational modeling projects, from flow and nanoparticle transport in porous media to tissue mechanics during embryonic development.

Over 20 years of experience in life sciences, combining computer
science, biology, and IT to support research. Leads IFOM’s Research
Computing & Data Science unit, managing a
diverse team standardizing and implementing computational
pipelines. Focuses on fostering collaboration, integrating innovative
computing tools, and enhancing technological capabilities. Committed
to training staff, promoting institutional visibility, and driving
research collaborations to keep IFOM at the forefront of biomedical
advancements.

Hello, I am an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Purdue University. I currently work with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing.

Working at CSC - IT Center for Science in Finland with configuring and developing our instances of Open OnDemand for both our national supercomputers Puhti and Mahti, and the European supercomputer LUMI, hosted by CSC.

Rodgers Kimera holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from Busitema University, Uganda and MSc in Computer Science from Victoria University, Uganda. In 2019, while working as a system Engineer working with RDCT, Rodgers was the lead person in setting up the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure at ACE Uganda and ACE Mali from which he has generated significant experience in Linux systems, using open-source tools for HPC environments, configuring workload managers especially SLURM, configuring and managing HPC systems as well as the physical hardware configuration.
Currently Rodgers is still working with NIAID/NIH/RDCT as the Lead HPC Engineer and responsible for deploying and maintaining several scientific software tools an

Ryan Cox is the Director of Research Computing at BYU. He has worked in the HPC field for 18 years and has contributed features to Slurm, such as the Fair Tree fairshare algorithm and pam_slurm_adopt.

Sandeep Chandra brings years of experience in infrastructure deployment for high-end compute and data management. Since joining SDSC in 2003, Sandeep has led cross-disciplinary initiatives and now directs Stack Science's strategic vision, particularly for Cloud Computing and Regulatory Data Management solutions. His expertise spans over 20 years of offering strategic guidance to federal, state, and academic institution leaders.

Sandra Gesing brings extensive expertise in science gateways, computational workflows, and distributed computing. As a Senior Researcher at SDSC, Director of SGX3, and Executive Director of US-RSE, she leads initiatives focused on research software sustainability, usability, and reproducibility. Her expertise spans academia, industry, and policy, where she champions better career paths for research software engineers and drives advancements in research software practices.

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Part of the HPC Team at Wake Forest University.

Simon is a System specialist at CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. He has been participating in the roll-out and operations of Open OnDemand on three different supercomputers since 2021, including the pre-exascale system LUMI. CSC operates OOD via a containerized deployment, which creates interesting opportunities for testing and development for OOD. CSC is an active contributor to the OOD project, including code submissions, issue reporting, and testing.

Dr Thomas Drake-Brockman (they/them) is a medical doctor and clinician-technologist working across Perth Children's Hospital, the University of Western Australia, and The Kids Research Institute Australia.

Wei Feinstein, Ph.D., leads HPC services at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a trained computational biologist with first-hand experience as an HPC user and over a decade of experience providing services. Wei is passionate about delivering cutting-edge technologies to research communities. Outside work, Wei enjoys family time, gives attention to her animals, and explores new places through travel.

Assistant Research Professor
Director of the EpiGenomics Core Facility
Director of the Center for Vertebrate Genomics

Dr. Yucheng Zhang is a bioinformatics engineer at Tufts University Research Technology, specializing in bioinformatics workflows, high-performance computing (HPC), and containerized applications. Before joining Tufts, he served as a senior life scientist at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University, where he contributed to advancing computational solutions for life sciences.