NCSA’s Daniel S. Katz Honored by HPCwire

This year, NCSA’s Chief Scientist, Daniel S. (Dan) Katz, was honored as a selection for the People to Watch 2025 edition of HPCwire’s profile series. Each year, HPCwire recognizes professionals who have made significant contributions to their field. In the 23 years since the series started, HPCwire has recognized 260 leaders in high-performance computing (HPC).

Katz has been with NCSA for almost nine years, becoming Chief Scientist in 2020. He has a long and illustrious career in research computing. Positions at Cray, JPL, University of Chicago and as a Program Director for the National Science Foundation are among his many career accomplishments.

While at NCSA, Katz has helped steer the Center’s Software and Applications unit into a new era of exemplary research and productivity. He champions Open Science and advocates for research software engineers (RSE) in a number of ways – one of his goals is to have the work of RSEs acknowledged in academic publishing. Katz is also a co-Founder of Parsl, as well as a professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science & Research and the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Katz touches on a number of these points and more in the profile on HPCwire’s site, which you can read in full here: People to Watch 2025 – Daniel Katz

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