Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Co-Chair of the National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on the Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem
Co-Chair of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force
Research Experience
Served as Office Director of NSF's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) via an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment
Leads the 200-person Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute
Leads the $100 million One-Utah Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative
Co-pioneered the formalization of Translational Computer Science (TCS) with Abramson
Led the SciDx project: Near-Data Services for Custom Data Access and In-Situ Processing
Led the NDP project: Extensible Data Ecosystem
Background
Inaugural Chief AI Officer for the University of Utah
Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute
Presidential Professor at the University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing
Leads the University of Utah’s One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative (One-U RAI)
Research interests include advanced cyberinfrastructure, responsible AI, near-data processing, extensible data ecosystems, and translational computer science