High Performance Computing

Christian White

Christian is a Research IT Domain Consultant and 5th Year PhD student in Civil & Environmental Engineering. His research interests include using omic techniques to evaluate the microbial ecology of biological nitrogen removal systems. He is also interested in using computational tools to understand trends and patterns in genomic data.

Scarlett Bliss

Scarlet Bliss is an MS/PhD student in Epidemiology in the School of Public Health. Her work focuses on mixed methods approaches to characterizing and preventing spread of antimicrobial resistance and other enteric pathogens via the environment. She has experience in statistical analysis and public health bioinformatics. She is interested in ethical use of big data as it relates to epidemiologic research.

Nur Goldner Cohen Tzedek

Research IT intern. I am majoring in Computer Science and Political Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock. Especially interested in Artificial General Intelligence and how online spaces are created and participated in.

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...

Noah Baker

Noah is an MPH student in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a Domain Consultant in Research IT. He has experience in molecular and microbiology research, bioengineering product development, and public health bioinformatics. His research is focused on scRNAseq of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 clinical samples in Uganda. He is interested in high performance computing and big data, especially pertaining to epidemiology.

Gary Jung

Manager, High Performance Computing Services
Berkeley Research Computing University of California, Berkeley

Manager, High Performance Computing Services
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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...

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...