AI4SCIENCE-AT-SCALE.AC.UK - Key Persons

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• Project Co - Ordinator for the BASE - II Project

Archit Mantry is the Project Co-ordinator for the BASE-II Project. He oversees daily project activities, resource allocation, milestone management and...

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• Director of Research Computing Services at the University of Cambridge

Dr. Paul Calleja is the Director of Research Computing Services at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab. He obtained his Ph.D. in computational biophysics at the University of Bath. After securing a post-doctoral research position at Birkbeck, University of London, he moved into private industry, where he spearheaded the early commercialisation of High-Performance Computing cluster solutions in the UK. Following six years in the commercial sector - during which time he led the market transition from proprietary SMP systems to commodity cluster-based solutions - Dr. Calleja returned to academia. At Imperial College London, Dr Calleja led the formation of a new HPC service, before moving in 2006 to the University of Cambridge to direct a major reorganisation of research computing services. This has resulted in university-wide HPC capabilities using a novel pay-per-use cloud computing model. The University of Cambridge is now home to the fastest academic supercomputer in the UK. Dr. Calleja sits on numerous national and international HPC committees and advisory boards, as well as being a founding member of the UK HPC Special Interest Group.

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• Knowledge Exchange Co - Ordinator

Marion Samler is the Knowledge Exchange Co-Ordinator for the BASE-II project. She is also the Business Development Manager for Scientific Computing (SC), and her primary focus is to build partnerships for SC, develop value propositions and support the extensive bid activity for the department as well as Tech Transfer opportunities. Marion's background is in Business and finance, Partnership Development with previous roles in project management, training and business development and was an Operations Director for a learning technology UK Charity.

Pam Slingsby joined UKRI STFC SCD in July 2023, and is the Administration Co-Ordinator for the BASE-II Project. With a diverse background, having worked at the Met. Office performing qualitative analysis on automatic weather station data, to payments facilitation and debit control in the telecoms industry and latterly, primary school business management, her unique perspective brings a breadth and impetus to support the project as an efficient, effe ctive, accomplished administrator. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Administrative Management.

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• Professorial Research Fellow

Rev. Prof. Jeremy Yates is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at UCL. He was the Founder-Director of the STFC DiRAC Supercomputing Facility (2011-2017), the Deputy Director of the STFC IRIS facility (2017-2019), the joint lead of the UKRI ExCALIBUR Hardware and Enabling Software programme (2019-present) and the Director of the UK SKA Regional Data Centre (UKSRC) Project (2021-to date). These projects require the creation of powerful digital research infrastructures to deliver peer reviewed, internationally competitive, community-generated science cases in the areas of high energy particle physics, astrophysics and nuclear physics using supercomputing, and high throughput computing, design principles. His current project UKSRC is part of the international SKA Regional Centre Network and has to deliver a federated service to process and analyse data generated by the 2 SKA Telescopes, which by 2028 will be 2PB a day. Rev. Prof. Yates is an expert, and undertakes research, in computational astrophysics, HPC system design, photon transport simulation, probabilistic mechanics and machine learning, and radio astronomy and interferometry. His current interests include developing in situ uncertainty propagation methods for simulations, using ML techniques, to allow simulations to be compared with measurements in order to turn simulations into science.

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• National Director of the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility

Prof. Mark Wilkinson is the national director of the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility (www.dirac.ac.uk), which provides high performance computing resources for the theoretical astrophysics, particle physics, cosmology, and nuclear physics communities in the UK. He is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Leicester, specialising in the study of dark matter in galaxies using a combination of observations, theoretical models, and machine learning. He has published almost 100 peer-reviewed papers and has more than 15,000 citations. Mark was the editor of the 2019 community-led white paper "UKRI National Supercomputing Roadmap 2019-30" and chaired the editorial board for the peer-reviewed "UKRI Science case for UK Supercomputing" which was published in 2020.