COMMITTEE
PEARC19 Executive Committee
General Chair: Tom Furlani
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
thomas.furlani@roswellpark.org
Diversity and Workforce Chair:
Alana Romanella
Virginia Tech
Technical Program Chair: Andrew Sherman
Yale University
Deputy Technical Program Co-Chair: Jay Alameda
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA
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Deputy Technical Program Co-Chair: Peter Enstrom
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA
Exhibitors Chair: Joe Paris
Northwestern University
j-paris@northwestern.edu
Communications Chair: Marisa Brazil
Purdue University
Logistics Chair: Ben Rogers
University of Iowa
Finance Co-Chair: Janie Bushn
TACC
Finance Co-Chair: Karla Gendler
TACC
Networking and Security Chair: Ryan Harden University of Chicago
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Student Program Chair: Semir Sarajlic
Georgia Institute of Technology
Proceedings Chair: Matt Ketterling
Colorado School of Mines
Evaluations Chair: Julie Wernert
Indiana University
Project Manager: Marques Bland
TACC
PEARC20 Chair: Gwen Jacobs
University of Hawaii
Communications Committee
Communications Chair: Marisa Brazil
Purdue University
Social Media Coordinator: Hannah Rae Remmert
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA
Website Design
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Contributors
Vivian Benton
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center-Carnegie Mellon University
Megan Leigh Janeski
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA
Student Program Committee
Student Program Chair: Semir Sarajlic
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ron Payne
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA
Ester Soriano
NCSA
Diana Toups Dugas
New Mexico State University
Jennifer Houchins
Shodor/XSEDE
Ken Hackworth
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Kate Cahill
Ohio Supercomputer Center
Aaron Weeden
Shodor
Hussein Al-Azzawi
University of New Mexico
Linda Hayden
SGCI
Sarvani Chadalapaka
University of California, Merced
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Je'aime Powell
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Finance Committee
Finance Co-Chairs:
Janie Bushn, TACC
Karla Gendler, TACC
Contributor:
Valerie Wise, TACC
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Networking and Security Committee
Network and Security Chair:
Ryan Harden
University of Chicago
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Contributor:
Tony Juarez
University of Chicago
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Technical Program Committee
Technical Program Chair: Andrew Sherman
Yale University
Deputy Technical Program Co-Chair:
Jay Alameda, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA
Peter Enstrom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA
Awards Chair: Amit Chourasia
San Diego Supercomputing Center
Birds of a Feather Chair: Daniel Andresen
Kansas State University
Posters Co-Chairs:
Diana Toups-Dugas, New Mexico State University
Jennifer Houchins, Shodor
Special Events Chair: Maria Kalyvaki
South Dakota State University
Tutorials Chair: Jason Zurawski
ESnet
Workshops Co-Chairs:
Ruth Marinshaw, Stanford University
Davide Del Vento, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Visualization Showcase Chair: Greg Foss
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Advanced Research Computing Software and Applications Track Co-Chairs:
Shane Sanders, The Jackson Laboratory
Xiao Zhu, Purdue University
Facilitation of Advanced Research Computing
Co-Chairs:
Stephen Harrell, Purdue University
John Cazes, Texas Advanced Computing Center
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Track Co-Chairs:
Weijia Xu, Texas Advanced Computing Center
George Rudolph, Utah Valley University
Workforce Development and Diversity Co-Chairs:
Asya Shklyar, Pomona College
Adam Erck, Doane University
Technical Program Committee Members:
Balamurugan Desinghu
Rutgers University, Rutgers
Biomedical Health Center
Rohit Dhariwal
Washington State University
Thomas Doak
Indiana University
Randy Downer
Colby College
Diana Dugas
NMSU
Brookes Emre
University of Texas Health Science
Center at San Antonio, GenApp/
genapp.rocks
Peter Enstrom
National Center for
Supercomputing Applications
Adam Erck
Doane University
Benjamin Evans
Yale Center for Research
Computing
R. Todd Evans
Texas Advanced Computing
Center
Floyd Fayton
Carnegie Institution of Washinton
Steven Fishback
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Charles Forsyth
University of California, Riverside
Greg Foss
Texas Advanced Computing
Center, University of Texas at Austin
Will French
Vanderbilt University
William Garrick
Portland State University
Vikram Gazula
University of Kentucky
Rosalia Gomez
The University of Texas at Austin
John Goodhue
Massachusetts Green High
Performance Computing Center
Jerry Greenberg
SDSC
Shirley Gruber
SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory
Luanzheng Guo
UC Merced
Scott Hampton
University of Notre Dame
Stephen Harrell
Purdue Univeristy
Linda Hayden
SGCI, ECSU
Brian Haymore
Center for High Performance
Computing, University of Utah
Randy Herban
Sylabs, Inc
Jennifer Houchins
Shodor, XSEDE Community
Engagement & Enrichment
Tania Jareen
Wichita State University
Doug Jennewein
University of South Dakota
Robert Kalescky
Southern Methodist University
Alper Kinaci
Northwestern University
William Law
Stanford University
Kristin Lepping
Rutgers University, Office of
Advanced Research Computing
Junjie Li
Indiana University
Junwen Li
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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Julie Ma
Massachusetts Green High Performance
Computing Center, Northeast
Cyberteam Initiative
Christina Maimone
Northwestern University
Kevin Manalo
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Johns Hopkins University
Ruth Marinshaw
Stanford University
Mariofanna Milanova
University of Arkansas
Kaylea Nelson
Yale Center for Research
Computing
Linh B. Ngo
West Chester University of
Pennsylvania
Ben Nickell
Idaho National Laboratory
Justin Oelgoetz
Austin Peay State University
Anand Padmanabhan
UIUC
Charles Pavloski
PSU, Institute for CyberScience
Ron Payne
NCSA, XSEDE
Cyrus Proctor
TACC
Wirawan Purwanto
Old Dominion University
Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Mohamad Qayoom
LSU Health New Orleans
Ghulam Rasool
Rowan University
Mark Reed
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ralph Roskies
University of Pittsburgh
George Rudolph
Utah Valley University
Shane Sanders
The Jackson Laboratory
Sergiu Sanielevici
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Semir Sarajlic
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Partnership for an Advanced
Computing Environment (PACE)
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Jayshree Sarma
George Mason University
Nicholas Schiraldi
University at Albany
Patrick Schmitz
University of California, Berkeley
Chuck Schwarz
Purdue University
Jake Searcy
University of Oregon
Erin Shaw
University of Southern California
Andrew Sherman
Yale Center for Research Computing
Asya Shklyar
Pomona College
Tajendra Singh
UCLA
Jack Smith
WV HEPC, Science & Research;
Marshall University, CEGAS
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Jack Smith
WV HEPC, Science & Research;
Marshall University, CEGAS
Ester Soriano
NCSA - UIUC, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Gil Speyer
Arizona State University
Scotty Strachan
University of Nevada, Reno;
Office of Information Technology
Shiquan Su
NCAR
Nitin Sukhija
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
David Swanson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jifu Tan
Northern Illinois University
Dinadayalane Tandabany
Clark Atlanta University
Nick Thorne
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Abhinav Thota
Indiana University
Jenett Tillotson
NCAR
Scott Valcourt
University of New Hampshire
Mark W. Van Moer
National Center for
Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Matt Vander Werf
University of Notre Dame
Madhu Vellakal
NCSA, UIUC
Yinzhi Wang
Texas Advanced Computing
Center
Le Mai Weakley
Indiana University
Aaron Weeden
The Shodor Education
Foundation, Inc.
Andrew Wiedlea
LBNL
Dee Wu
ouhsc
Weijia Xu
Texas Advanced Computing,
University of Texas