RESEARCH IT - Key Persons


Amy Neeser

Working at the intersection of Libraries and IT, I have experience with data in all aspects of the research lifecycle. My professional and research interests include interdisciplinary and open digital scholarship, innovative uses of technologies in academic environments, and critical digital...Read more about Amy Neeser

Anna Sackmann

Anna is the Data Services Librarian at the UC Berkeley Library. In this role, Anna oversees the Library Data Services Program, which guides scholars to discover, access, share, and preserve data through dataset acquisition, discovery and librarian-led instruction and...Read more about Anna Sackmann

Chris Paciorek

Job Titles:
  • Computing Consultant and Adjunct Professor
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...Read more about Chris Paciorek

Christopher Hann-Soden

Christopher is a PhD bioinformatician specializing in genomics and computational biology. He provides support for HPC systems and cloud computing as a consultant with Berkeley Research Computing, and provides services for genomics experiments and data analysis as the Director for...Read more about Christopher Hann-Soden

Erin Foster

Erin is the Service Lead for the UC Berkeley Research Data Management Program. In this role, Erin oversees the program and its services to academic departments and service units and is responsible for providing leadership and collaborative coordination to ensure the...Read more about Erin Foster

Erin Tan

Erin (she/her) is a Research Computing Intern for RTL and current UC Berkeley undergraduate studying computer science and cognitive science. My professional interests include machine learning and autonomous systems, but I am always interested in learning new topics!Read more about Erin Tan

Gary Jung

Job Titles:
  • Manager, High Performance Computing Services / Berkeley Research Computing University of California

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.Read more about Hamza Kundi

Jeff D'Ambrogia

Job Titles:
  • Science IT Consulting Engineer
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...Read more about Jeff D'Ambrogia

John White

Job Titles:
  • HPC Systems Engineer
John White is an HPC Systems Engineer specializing in storage systems. He works with customers from day one of cluster design through implementation, maintenance, and eventual retirement. Most of his career has involved design and implementation of parallel file systems, but his...Read more about John White

Karen Fernsler

Job Titles:
  • HPC Systems Engineer
Karen Fernsler is a HPC Systems Engineer who builds and maintains HPC LInux clusters at the Lab and on the UC Berkeley campus for the Berkeley Research Computing program. In addition to being the group's Globus expert, she also supports Linux in various flavors for servers and...Read more about Karen Fernsler

Ken Lutz

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research IT Read More about Ken Lutz

Lawrence Berkeley

Job Titles:
  • Manager, High Performance Computing Services

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...Read more about Noah Baker

Orion Cohen

Orion is a Chemistry graduate student working with Dr. Kristin Persson at the Berkeley Lab. He studies Li ion battery electrolytes with classical atomistic simulations. Orion has a special place in his heart for software sustainability, open science, and scalable scientific workflows.Read more about Orion Cohen

Rick Jaffe

Guidance and referrals regarding data management strategies; DMPs for grants; data discovery, storage, security, privacy, sharing, publication, and preservation.Read more about Rick Jaffe

Ronald Sprouse

Ronald Sprouse holds a part-time appointment with Research IT as a member of the Secure Research Data and Compute (SRDC) service team. He is also an Information Systems Analyst in the Linguistics Department. Within SRDC he supports the provisioning and setup of virtual...Read more about Ronald Sprouse

Scarlet 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...Read more about Scarlett Bliss

Tin Ho

Tin works on both the system and application support level for both the Berkeley Research Computing and LBL Scientific Computing group. Tin has interest in Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery and Geographic Information System.Read more about Tin Ho

Wan Nurul

Wan Nurul Naszeerah (she/her) is a Doctor of Public Health student at UC Berkeley and a domain consultant at Research IT. Trained in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Wan has conducted epidemiological studies using a combination of tools, including field entomology, Geographic Information...Read more about Wan Nurul Naszeerah

Wei Feinstein

Wei Feinstein joined the HPCS team in 2018. As a user support, she has the passion of providing cutting-edge HPC technologies and services to the scientific research communities at LBNL and UC Berkeley. Prior to the Lab, she was a HPC consultant at LSU, where she...Read more about Wei Feinstein