We are very pleased to welcome new members to the CTSC Advisory Committee:
Dr. David Halstead is the CIO for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a facility of the NSF operated under cooperative agreement by AUI, where his responsibilities are divided between Data Management for the Observatory’s HPC infrastructure in support of the national radio telescopes, and the general IT support for 500+ employees. He has served on multiple SuperComputing Conference committees and is a founding member of the ACM’s SIGHPC Education Chapter. Prior to joining NRAO, he worked in the DOE Scalable Computing Laboratory in Ames Lab, and in the private sector with Celera Genomics.
Dr. Melissa Woo is the Senior Vice President for Information Technology (IT) and Chief Information Officer at Stony Brook University. Prior to joining Stony Brook University, Melissa was the Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer at the University of Oregon. Melissa has also worked for the central IT organizations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign leading and supporting a number of areas, including research cyberinfrastructure, enterprise IT services, and IT operations and infrastructure.
David and Melissa join a committee that consists of Tom Barton of the University of Chicago, Neil Chue Hong of the UK Software Sustainability Institute, Nicholas Multari of Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr of the San Diego Supercomputing Center.
Both David and Melissa bring key expertise and experiences to the advisory committee. David, as CIO of NRAO, has the perspective of an NSF Large Facilities and the cybersecurity challenges they face in supporting research. Melissa, as CIO at Stony Brook, brings a wealth of experience in higher education IT and the key role it has supporting research nationally.
We thank both David and Melissa for joining the CTSC Advisory Board and look forward to working closely with them to support research and science cybersecurity challenges.
We also take this opportunity to thank Don Middleton of NCAR for his service on the Advisory Committee and wish him well in retirement.
