Data-driven. People-powered.

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.

Administrative Office Leads

• Jessica Leemon, Director of Budget and Resource Plannning
• Thu Nguyen, Director, Marketing and Communications
• Amanda Rawls, Director, Human Resources
• Tedra Tuttle, Assistant Director, Facilities

Engagement Leads (Center/Program/Project Office)

• TBD, Senior Assistant Director, Engagement
• Vikram Adve, Principal Investigator, Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability
• 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 Research Scientist, Innovative Systems Laboratory
• John MacMullen, Executive Director, Midwest Big Data Hub
• Brendan McGinty, Executive Director, Center for Digital Agriculture
• Brendan McGinty, Associate Director, Industry Program
• Don Petravick, Senior Program Manager, Dark Energy Survey Project
• Stephen Pietrowicz , Principal Research Programmer, Rubin Observatory
• John Towns, PI, ACCESS Coordination Office
• Joaquin Vieira, Director, Center for Astrophysical Surveys

Integrated Cyberinfrastructure Leads

• James Glasgow, Technical Program Manager, Advanced Systems Division
• Doug Fein, Assistant Director, Continuous Improvement and Innovation Division
• David Wheeler, Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Management and Delivery Division

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
• Sandra Kappes, 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