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

• Angela Douglas, Assistant Director, Business Office
• Thu Nguyen, Director, Marketing and Communications
• Rachel Park, Lead, Administrative Support Coordination Office
• Ron Payne, Program Manager, Project Management Coordination Office
• Emily Scherbring, Assistant Director, Human Resources
• Tedra Tuttle, Assistant Director, Facilities

Engagement Leads (Center/Program/Project Office)

• Amanda Lombardo, Senior Assistant Director, Engagement
• Vikram Adve, Principal Investigator, Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability
• Tim Boerner, Senior Assistant Director, Delta Project Office
• Colleen Bushell, Associate Director, Healthcare Innovation Program Office
• Michelle Butler, Senior Assistant Director, Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project
• Jonathan Freund, Co-Director, Center for Exascale-enabled Scramjet Design Project Office
• Volodomyr Kindratenko, Director, Center for AI Innovation
• Volodomyr Kindratenko, Senior Research Scientist, Innovative Systems Laboratory
• Bill Kramer, Executive Director, Blue Waters Project Office
• Seid Koric, Technical Assistant Director, Industrial Application Domains
• 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
• Robert Sisneros, Senior Research Scientist, Data Analysis and Visualization
• John Towns, PI and Project Director, XSEDE Project Office
• Joaquin Vieira, Director, Center for Astrophysical Surveys

Integrated Cyberinfrastructure Leads

• James Glasgow, Technical Program Manager, Advanced Systems Division
• Daniel Lapine, Technical Program Manager, Continuous Improvement and Innovation Division
• David Wheeler, Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Management and Delivery Division
• Alex Withers, Assistant Director, Cybersecurity Division

Software Leads

• Jong Lee, Deputy Associate Director, Software
• Matthew Berry, Lead Research Programmer, Visual Analytics
• 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
• Steve Pietrowicz, Lead Research Programmer, Middleware Technology Group
• Nathan Tolbert, Lead Research Programmer, Tools for Research Institutes and Infrastructure

User Services Leads

• Jay Alameda, Lead, Advanced Application Support
• Greg Bauer, Lead, Science and Engineering Applications Support
• Carman Hendricks, Lead, Technology Management Group
• Amber Munds, Lead, Business IT