Directorates

At the heart of everything we do is a spirit of collaboration, honoring how individual expertise can, collectively, best solve research’s grand challenges.

Working across directorates, guided by a cabinet representing all functions of our organization, NCSA addresses projects as a whole, applying an integrated approach to all we do.

Administration and Operations Leads

• Jessica Leemon, Director of Budget and Resource Planning
• Amanda Rawls, Director of Organizational Culture and Strategy
• Samantha Koon, Director of Marketing and Communications
• Margo Kiener, Human Resources Manager

Engagement Leads (Center/Program/Project Office)

• Chuck Pavloski, Associate Director of Engagement
• Vikram Adve, Principal Investigator, AIFARMS National AI Agriculture Institute
• Brett Bode, Senior Assistant Director, Delta Project Office
• Colleen Bushell, Associate Director, Healthcare Innovation Program Office
• Jonathan Freund, Co-Director, Center for Exascale-enabled Scramjet Design Project Office
• Volodomyr Kindratenko, Director, Center for AI Innovation
• Bill Kramer, Executive Director, New Frontiers Initiative
• Daniel Lapine, Senior Technical Program Manager, Innovative Systems Lab
• John MacMullen, Executive Director, Office of Data Science Research
• Brendan McGinty, Associate Director, Industry Program
• Stephen Pietrowicz, Principal Research Programmer, Rubin Observatory
• John Reid, Executive Director, Center for Digital Agriculture
• John Towns, PI, ACCESS Coordination Office
• Laura Herriott, Co-PI, ACCESS Allocations Program Office, Co-PI, ACCESS Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS)
• Tim Boerner, PI, ACCESS COre National Ecosystem for CyberinfrasTructure (CONECT)
• Joaquin Vieira, Director, Center for Astrophysical Surveys
• Jessica Wedow, Executive Director, AIFARMS National AI Agriculture Institute

Integrated Cyberinfrastructure Leads

• James Eyrich, ADO Assistant Director of ICI Operations
• Doug Fein, Assistant Director, ADO Continuous Improvement and Innovation Division
• Leslie Froeschl, Assistant Director, ADO & ACCESS Operations
• James Basney, Manager, CyberInfrastructure Security Research (CISR)
• Chit Khin, Manager, Computing Systems (CS)
• Matt Kollross, Manager, Network Engineering and Research (NERD)
• Andy Loftus, Manager, Software Platforms (SP)
• JD Maloney, Manager, Storage Enabling Technologies (SET)
• Ryan Walker, Manager, Incident Response and Security (IRST)

Research Consulting Leads

• Seid Koric, Technical Associate Director
• Greg Bauer, Lead, Science and Engineering Applications Support
• Brandon Carswell, Lead, Technology Management Group
• Christina Fliege, Lead Genomics
• Chris Keeley, Lead Research Facilitation Services
• Xiaoxia Liao, Lead, Data Analytics
• Amber Munds, Lead, Business IT

Software Leads

• Jong Lee, Deputy Associate Director, Software
• Matthew Berry, Lead Research Programmer, Visual Analytics
• Lisa Gatzke, Lead Research UIX Designer, UI/UX 
• Rob Kooper, Lead Research Programmer, Software Design Delivery and Deploy
• Luigi Marini, Lead Research Programmer, Software Applications and Data Lab
• Chris Navarro, Lead Research Programmer, Research Software Applications and Learning Technologies
• Nathan Tolbert, Lead Research Programmer, Tools for Research Institutes and Infrastructure
• Chris Pond, Lead Data Engineer, Research Data Engineering