Cloud Computing

Jeffrey Jacob

Jeffrey Jacob is a Research IT Domain Consultant and a current Graduate Student studying Molecular Science and Software Engineering. His current research involves tailoring Large Language Models to dissect scientific literature and predict future hotspots of research. Some of Jeffrey’s interests include Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry and High Performance Computing.

Rick McGeer

Rick is a Berkeley PhD from EECS who's done extensive work in industrial research and startups in Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Computer Networking, and Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits He's particularly interested in democratizing access to computing systems and data.

Hugh Kadhem

Hugh is a Ph.D. student in applied mathematics working in
computational quantum physics and quantum Monte-Carlo methods. He is
broadly interested in computational science, high-performance
computing, and quantum computing.

Joleen Locanas

Joleen helps on the Secure Research Data and Compute platform and brings deep expertise in service management and service design from her work in bIT.

Hamza Kundi

Hamza is a Research Computing Intern and an undergraduate majoring in Computer Science and Statistics. His professional interests include Data Science and System Administration/DevOps. His other interests include exploring random tunnels and hiking with friends at 4 AM.

Jason C. Christopher

I am a Research Computing Architect, Service Lead and Information Security Officer in Research IT at UC Berkeley. I currently manage the:

Secure Research Data and Computation (SRDC) Platform, providing secure, scalable, customized virtual machines, and high performance computing (HPC) for research with sensitive and protected data. The Platform serves schools and departments across campus, ranging in study from...

Jeff D'Ambrogia

Jeff is a Science IT consulting engineer who provides consulting support and services to science and technical programs at the Lab. Prior to joining the Lab, Jeff spent 5 years as the CTO for a national specialty pharmacy company, building the business from the initial founding to the sale of the company. Prior to that Jeff spent over 20 years as an IT consultant working for various startups and established companies in a...

Fengchen Liu

Fengchen just joined the group as a Science IT Consultant. Prior to joining the Lab, he worked at a Fintech company as a senior AI Engineer, at RMS (Risk Management Solutions) as a Software Engineer, and at UC San Francisco for 7 years on computational epidemiology using HPC. His research background (researchgate.net/profile/fengchen_liu) includes predictive models of infectious diseases and control of epidemic disease...

Chris Paciorek

Chris Paciorek is a statistical computing consultant and adjunct professor in the Department of Statistics. He also serves part-time as a user consultant for Berkeley Research Computing.

Areas of expertise: high-performance computing, cloud computing, and programming for data analysis/data science/statistics.

In his research, Chris works on statistical methods, often Bayesian methods, applied to environmental and public health problems, including climate science, ecology, and global health. In recent years, he has taught graduate classes on statistical computing and
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Ken Lutz

Director of Research IT