NCSA Affiliates

Collaborate with the Best

Becoming an affiliate with NCSA gives you direct access to NCSA research scientists, staff and services. NCSA has a wealth of experience working with our affiliates to accelerate their research with top-of-the-line compute and cyberinfrastructure resources, data, program support and more.

Areas of Expertise

Potential applicants are encouraged to contact the relevant groups listed below to discuss their research needs and project ideas. We also have experts from a wide range of backgrounds to help you get the most out of your affiliation with NCSA, including:

• Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation
• Compute Resources
• Data Analytics
• Healthcare Innovation Program Office 
• Innovative Systems
• Illinois Computes
• Integrated Cyberinfrastructure
• Program Administration
• Software and Applications
• User Services
• Visualization

Benefits

Affiliates benefit from access to:

• Compute, data and other cyberinfrastructure resources.
• Student programs like Students Pushing Innovation Internship Program (SPIN) or the Research Experience for Undergraduates FoDoMMaT.
• The Proposal Development Office, which offers strategic research and proposal development services to support the innovative, collaborative, multidisciplinary work of NCSA staff and affiliated researchers.

How to Become an Affiliate

Illinois researchers interested in becoming affiliated with NCSA are encouraged to fill out this interest form and answer questions about your research, how being affiliated with NCSA will benefit your research and more. U. of I. faculty and research staff are eligible to apply. To find out more about this program, contact Assistant Director for Research & Education Olena Kindratenko at kindrat2@illinois.edu.

Affiliates have a 0% NCSA appointment and work in close collaboration with NCSA researchers or research groups, provide expertise and participate in NCSA advisory and review committees, contribute to and take part in interdisciplinary collaborative funding efforts, and act as liaisons with their home departments. 

Meet Our Affiliates

From Postdoc Affiliate to Award-Winning Researcher

“If I had never had the opportunity to use NCSA resources and benefit from NCSA support, if I had never had the opportunity to explore the dynamics of that first intact capsid, I would not be on the career or research trajectory that I’m on today.”

– Jodi Hadden-Perilla

Songs in the Circuitry

“This project is not about training the computer to guess a song’s classification correctly. After all, we are comparing the machine’s interpretation with the poet’s. What this project can do is go deep into the corpus of one poet and find an inherent pattern in that corpus.”

– Rini Mehta