Scholar
Daniel S. Katz
Google Scholar ID: 1I4dbdAAAAAJ
NCSA, CS, iSchool @ UIUC
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,924
H-index
35
i10-index
76
Publications
20
Co-authors
173
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Numerous book chapters, journal and conference publications, and NASA Tech Briefs
- Senior Member of IEEE and ACM
- Co-founder and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Source Software
- Co-founder of the US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE)
- Co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of the Research Software Alliance (ReSA)
Research Experience
- Senior Fellow, Computation Institute (CI), University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory (2009–2016)
- Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (2016–2021)
- Program Director, Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, NSF (2012–2016)
- Director for Cyberinfrastructure Development, CCT, Louisiana State University (2006–2009)
- Adjunct Associate Professor, LSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2006–2013)
- Open Grid Forum Area Co-director for Applications (2010–2012)
- TeraGrid GIG Director of Science (2008–2011)
- Various roles at JPL (1996–2006), including Supervisor of Parallel Applications Technologies group and Area Program Manager of High End Computing
- Computational Scientist at Cray Research / Silicon Graphics, on-site at JPL and Caltech (1993–1996), specializing in parallel computational electromagnetics
Background
- Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Research Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at UIUC
- Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellow
- Research interests focus on developing and using advanced cyberinfrastructure to solve challenging multi-scale problems
- Technical research areas include applications, algorithms, fault tolerance, and programming in parallel and distributed computing (HPC, Grid, Cloud, etc.)
- Also interested in policy issues such as citation/credit mechanisms for software and data, community collaboration practices, and career paths for computing researchers
