RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - Key Persons
Adam Eubanks is an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia studying Computer Science and French. He specializes in content creation for the RC Learning Team, creating text and video tutorials for the RC Learning Portal. His interests include machine learning, human language, and volleyball.
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- Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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- Financial & Administrative Services, Director
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- Research Computing Scientist
- Scientist in the Data Analytics Center
Angela is a computational scientist in the Data Analytics Center at RC. She supports faculty and community members' machine and deep learning research. Angela is experienced in working in HPC and Cloud computing environments.
Education
M.S. Data Science
University of Virginia (2023)
Job Titles:
- Research Computing Associate
Camden is experienced in working in an HPC environment and coding with Python. He works to provide user support for the users of Rivanna. His background includes materials physics and mathematics.
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- Research Computing Student Worker
- Student
Diya is a 2nd year student at the University of Virginia and is pursuing a degree in Computer Science with a minor in Data Science. She has been programing since 7th grade and has been involved in robotics during middle and high school. She has experience in languages like Python and C++, and has worked on web development projects.
As a Research Computing Student Worker, Diya has mainly focused on converting workshop materials into easily digestible markdowns. She has also been involved in providing feedback to improve the RC websites and has helped document workshop attendance through Jira ticket submissions. Diya is looking forward to working on machine learning projects in the future.
Education
B.A. Computer Science, Minor in Data Science
University of Virginia (Expected 2026)
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- Computational Research Consultant
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- Senior Computational Scientist
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- Computer Scientist
- Research Computing Associate
Hana is a Computer Scientist with a strong background in a variety of programming languages. She is most experienced with Python and C/C++ and is passionate about teaching others about those languages. She helps to provide user support for the users of Rivanna and is seeking to learn more about GPU computing to better help those in an HPC environment.
Job Titles:
- Senior Computational Scientist
Jacalyn (Jackie) Huband, Ph.D. is a Computational Research Support Specialist at the University of Virginia (UVA). Her primary role is as a facilitator to researchers who are transitioning their codes onto a high-performance computing (HPC) platform. She also is active in developing workshops for programmers at all levels. In addition to her work at UVA, Jackie has been an Associate Professor in Computer Science and a programmer in industry. She has experience programming in R, Python, Matlab, C/C++, and Fortran.
Juwon is a third year student at the University of Virginia pursuing a major in Applied Statistics and a minor in Data Science. She contributes to the development of a program that rebuilds R libraries for users. She has experience performing data analysis and creating data visualizations in R, Python, and SAS, and is passionate about utilizing data to make meaningful interpretations in the world.
Juwon currently works as a data volunteer for a local non profit organization that provides essentials for under-resourced families with children. One of her favorite hobbies include collecting and organizing her sock collection.
Karsten's background is in developmental cell biology, genetics and light microscopy. He leads Research Computing's User Services team and provides technical support, training and project consultation for UVA's centralized compute platforms. His focus areas are HPC workflows, software containers, Python programming and image processing.
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Systems Consultant
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- Computational Research Scientist
Kathryn is an applied mathematician with the Data Analytics Center. Her current research interests include numerical linear algebra, low-rank matrix approximation and applications, and scientific computing. Prior to joining RC, she was a Research Scientist with the Social and Decision Analytics Division of UVA's Biocomplexity Institute where she specialized in natural language processing and machine learning for social science applications. She has experience with HPC, general purpose GPU computing, and academic programming with University of Maryland faculty from the Math, Computer Science, and Chemistry/Biochemistry departments.
Education
(Expected) Ph.D. Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation
University of Maryland, College Park (May 2024)
Certificate in Data Science
Georgetown University, School of Continuing Studies (2018)
M.S. Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation
University of Maryland, College Park (2009)
B.A. Mathematics
Hood College (2006)
Matthew Galitz is an undergraduate student at University of Virginia studying Mathematics and Computer Science. He specializes in Python scripting and software development. His interests include artificial intelligence, brazilian jiu jitsu, and powerlifting.
Job Titles:
- Lead Scientist, Scientific Computing
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- Infrastructure Services, Director