RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - Key Persons
Adam Eubanks is an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University studying Applied Math. He specializes in Open OnDemand app development and machine learning with HPC, as well as containerization.
Project Description: Adam contributed to the XALT containerization project by developing a Docker container for running XALT on UVA RC clusters. His work streamlined deployment of XALT, a tool which will help UVA RC with usage tracking and resource allocation.
Job Titles:
- Research Computing Technical Support Manager
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- Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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- Research Computing Scientist
- Scientist in the Data Analytics Center at RC
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)
Bhargav is a Computer Science student in the School of Engineering with experience in web development, Python, Java, and Linux, as well as video and tutorial production. He is passionate about creating websites and writing scripts to enhance efficiency. At Research Computing, Bhargav aims to deepen his knowledge of high-performance computing while making the University's extensive computing resources more accessible to UVA students and staff. Outside of technology, Bhargav's hobbies include playing quizbowl and watching stand-up.
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- 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.
Diana is currently a first-year UVA student pursuing electrical and computer engineering. She has experience with machine learning and software development, with her favorite languages being Python, JavaScript, and C++. At Research Computing, Diana is excited to support research and gain more experience with high-performance computing. In the future, she is hoping to further explore software and embedded development.
Education
B.S. Computer Engineering
University of Virginia (Expected Graduation: 2027)
Job Titles:
- 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)
Project Description: Diya contributed to the ACCORD Containers project. She worked on updating the containerized applications available on ACCORD, particularly the Jupyter Python and RStudio Server environments, to the latest versions. She also worked on developing scripts to test these environments. This work aims to support researchers by providing the latest versions of these environments and ensuring that researchers have access to the newest functionalities.
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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.
Project Description: Hari contributed to the Workshop Data project. He worked on creating a microservice that takes in a specified time period and returns a list of the number of workshops and the number of registrants for each workshop. The goal was to gain a better understanding of the workshops that should continue to be offered, as well as which departments we should target for advertising our workshops to maximize utilization.
Hongyan Wu is a graduate student at the University of Virginia studying Computer Science. He specializes in Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning and Robotics.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director of the Data Analytics Center
Jacalyn (Jackie) Huband, Ph.D. is the Assistant Director of the Data Analytics Center (DAC) within Research Computing at the University of Virginia (UVA). In addition to managing the DAC resources, she is a facilitator to researchers who are transitioning their codes onto a high-performance computing (HPC) platform. She also has been instrumental in creating learning opportunities within Research Computing, including Workshops, Brown Bag Lunches, and Journal Clubs. Prior 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.
Jennifer is a fourth-year student at UVA pursuing a B.S in Computer Science and a minor in Data Science. She has a strong foundation in programming languages like Python and C, and particularly favors Java. She has experience in making data visualizations and contributing to web and game development projects. Enthused about learning and exploration, she enjoys trying new foods and playing board games, with Catan being her first choice. Jennifer is driven by a desire to help others and making a positive impact by using her skills to innovate and support others in achieving common goals.
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.
Project Description: Juwon contributed to the Image Processing with Matlab project, which utilized image processing functionality to skeletonize a brain image for a consultation. The project explored Matlab's various capabilities for image transformation, simplifying the quantification of fluorescent changes across brain tissue for further research.
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
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.
Project Description: Matthew contributed to the Rivanna Utilization Statistics project. This initiative enhanced the efficiency of generating usage statistics and allocation reports for UVA's Rivanna high-performance computing system. By developing scripts that aggregate and analyze computational resource utilization, his work supports strategic planning of resource allocation and infrastructure upgrades.
Mohan is currently a first-year graduate student pursuing chemical engineering with a focus on computational catalysis. Primarily, he uses Python, density functional theory (DFT) software like VASP and Gaussian, and machine learning models like FLARE and ALLEGRO for his work.
Education
B.S. Chemistry, Highest Distinction; University of Virginia
M.S. Chemical Engineering; University of Virginia (Expected May, 2026)
Job Titles:
- Research Computing ( RC ) Data Analytics Center As a Research Computing Scientist
- Research Computing Scientist
Priyanka (Pri) Prakash joined the Research Computing (RC) Data Analytics Center as a Research Computing Scientist in Jan 2024. She joins us from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX where she worked as an Institute Research Investigator. Prior to that she was a computational scientist at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR, Frederick, MD). She has MS in organic chemistry, and she completed her PhD in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (IITK). She has extensively worked in the field of computational biophysics, computer-aided drug design (CADD) and in integrating AI/ML and molecular simulation approaches in CADD. She has published 30+ original peer-reviewed research articles in journals including Cell, PNAS, Biophys J, Scientific Rep, in the field of her domain expertise and served as an inventor on investigational new drug applications and patents. Her domain expertise is drug discovery, cancer biology, computational biophysics and computational chemistry and she has been a user of HPC environment (TACC, XSEDE, Biowulf) for more than a decade. She has served as co-PI on two awarded grants for compute time on NSF-funded ACCESS systems. She has designed and developed innovative computational strategies including workflows/computational pipelines in CADD and computational biophysics/chemistry with tremendous positive impact in academia as well as pharma-oriented industry setups. She is highly experienced in scientific communication and grant-writing and has served as a co-I on an awarded NIH R01.
Job Titles:
- Lead Scientist, Scientific Computing
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- Infrastructure Services, Director
Wright is a 4th-year computer science student at UVA studying computer science and studio art, with a focus on web applications and software engineering. Outside the classroom, Wright's interests include textile art, hiking, and woodworking.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Xinyue is currently a second-year UVA master student in computer science. With a diverse background in computer science, she is proficient in Python and C++, and has experience with data science and cloud deployments. Xinyue is familiar with machine learning algorithms, applying them across various fields such as autonomous navigation for ROSbot cars and bioinformatics for cancer survival analysis. Her diverse expertise and passion for technology keep her moving forward.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
M.S. Computer Science
University of Virginia (Expected Graduation: 2025)