Dr. Benjamin (Ben) Brown is the Director of the Facilities Division in the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), which leads operations and major upgrade projects at each of the ASCR Facilities: the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center (NERSC), and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). The Division’s recent accomplishments include the successful deployment of the world’s first exascale (one billion billion calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier at OLCF, and the successful completion of the ESnet6 network upgrade, a software-defined, terabit- and continent-scale network for lossless movement of extreme-scale data. 

Ben is also the lead architect of the Department’s Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) effort to accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation through seamless interoperability of experimental, observational, computational, network, and data infrastructure. In both of these roles, he focuses on the strategic advancement of science and the DOE mission through cross-institutional knowledge-sharing, strategic planning, and partnership development. Ben is a physicist with experience working in U.S. government laboratories and academic institutions in both the U.S. and U.K.; his research focused on optical control of quantum systems and quantum information science. He received his Ph.D. in optics from the University of Rochester and his bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University.

Indermohan (Inder) S. Monga serves as the Division Director for Scientific Networking Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Executive Director of Energy Sciences Network, a high-performance network user facility optimized for large-scale science, interconnecting the National Laboratory System in the United States. In addition to managing the organization, his efforts are directed towards advancing the science of networking for collaborative and distributed research applications, as well as contributing to ongoing research projects tackling programmability, analytics and quality of experience driving convergence between application layer and the network. He currently holds 23 patents and has 20+ years of industry and research experience in telecommunications and data networking. His work experience in the private sector includes network engineering for Wellfleet Communications, Bay Networks and Nortel where he focused on application and network convergence. His undergraduate degree is in electrical/electronics engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, with graduate studies in computer engineering from Boston University.

Rachana Ananthakrishnan is Executive Director & Head of Products at the University of Chicago, and has a Joint Staff Appointment at Argonne National Laboratory.  In her role at the university, she leads the Globus (www.globus.org) department, which delivers a research IT platform to national and international research institutions. She currently serves on the Internet2 InCommon Steering Committee, Earth System Grid Federation Executive Committee and Scientific Advisory Board for National Microbiome Data Collaborative.

Her work is focused on cyberinfrastructure for enabling research across a variety of domains, and she has led security and data management for several NSF, DOE, and NIH funded initiatives. Rachana was a member of the Globus Toolkit engineering team and customer engagement teams, leading the efforts in web services and security technologies. Rachana received her MS in Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington

Debbie Bard is group lead for the Data Science Engagement Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. A native of the UK, her career spans research in particle physics, cosmology and computing on both sides of the Atlantic. She obtained her Ph.D. at Edinburgh University, and worked at Imperial College London and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory before joining the Data and Analytics group at NERSC, where she focuses on data-intensive computing and research. 

Amber Boehnlein is Jefferson Lab's Associate Director for Computational Science and Technology and CIO.  She has worked on scientific computing in a distributed, collaborative environment for over 20 years at three different SC labs.  That experience has given her insight into experimental workloads for High Energy and Nuclear Physics and for light sources. 

Eric is an experimental particle physicist, with expertise in data acquisition and analysis software and hardware. He belongs to the DUNE neutrino experiment and the NEXT neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. He also does work for national security physics projects. Currently, Eric is  on 50% assignment from PNNL with the DOE's High Energy Physics program.

Eli Dart is a network engineer in the ESnet Science Engagement Group, which seeks to use advanced networking to improve scientific productivity and science outcomes for the DOE science facilities, their users, and their collaborators. Eli is a primary advocate for the Science DMZ design pattern and works with facilities, laboratories, universities, science collaborations, and science programs to deploy data-intensive science infrastructure based on the Science DMZ model. Eli is also a key contributor to the ESnet network requirements program, which collects, synthesizes, and aggregates the networking needs of the science programs ESnet serves.

Eli has more than 20 years of experience in network architecture, design, engineering, performance, and security in scientific and research environments. His primary professional interests are high-performance architectures and effective operational models for networks that support scientific missions, and building collaborations to bring about the effective use of high-performance networks by science projects. Eli holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Oregon State University College of Engineering.

Kjiersten Fagnan began working with the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBL’s Computational Research Division.. As a postdoc her research focused on stable and accurate computational methods for reacting subsurface flows, and evolved into scalable methods for scientific data analysis. In 2014 Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a focus on adapting JGI workloads to run on supercomputing hardware and worked closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of JGI in 2016 and in 2018 was hired as the JGI’s Data Science and Informatics department head. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prize winning team at the Supercomputing conference, SC’18, led by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Fagnan has been the Distinguished Speaker at IBM Research in Almaden where she presented work related to distributed data and workflow management. Dr. Fagnan is also a co-PI for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative.

Xiaofeng Guo is a Program Manager in the Office of Nuclear Physics at the Department of Energy (DOE), overseeing the Nuclear Physics Computing research program. Prior to joining DOE, Xiaofeng served as a Program Director in the Large Facilities Office at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Xiaofeng developed and implemented the management process for Midscale Research Infrastructure programs. She also developed the NSF Earned Value Management Guide and guidelines for NSF oversight reviews of major facilities.

Xiaofeng has a Ph. D degree in Nuclear Physics. Her research work was in the area of High Energy Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics. Xiaofeng has extensive project management experience. When she was at Brookhaven National Lab, she managed large-scale science projects involving domestic and international collaborations, such as the High Luminosity LHC ATALS Upgrade project and US LHC ATLAS Phase I Upgrade projects at CERN.

The Chief Technology Officer for ESnet, DOE’s high performance network user facility, Chin has led many innovative projects during his 25 years at ESnet. In 2006, Guok conceived and led the ESnet On-demand Secure Circuits and Advanced Reservation System (OSCARS) project, which received the R&D100 award in 2013 and the Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Award in 2014. Most recently he led the design for ESnet6, ESnet’s next-generation network. His research interests include high-performance networking and network protocols, dynamic network resource provisioning, network tuning issues, and hybrid network traffic engineering. Guok has an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of the Pacific.

Dr. Michael Halfmoon received his Ph.D. from the University of Tulsa in 2018 and worked as a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Texas at Austin as a member of the Institute for Fusion Studies. He began working as a Program Manager for the Theory and Simulation division of the Department of Energy Office of Science Fusion Energy Sciences in 2022. Originally from Tulsa, OK, Michael worked as a visiting PhD student at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as his research advisor accepted a position at the lab. Michael’s research specializations include the theory of energetic particle interactions with resistive MHD instabilities and edge turbulence in tokamak experiments. Michael is the father to one son and adoptive father to two dogs. His hobbies include video games, watching horror movies, and exploring the world with his son.

Damian Hazen joined ESnet’s Planning and Architecture Group in 2022 where he is working on data and storage services. Damian focuses on datacenter network design, large-scale storage systems, HPC interconnects and information security. Prior to ESnet, Damian held a variety of roles, most recently leading the Security and Networking Group at NERSC. He has been the NERSC Storage Systems Group lead, a network engineer specializing in datacenter and HPC networks, and spent more than 10 years as a storage systems developer focused on data transfers and system security. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington State University. 

Dr. Dava Keavney is Program Manager for X-ray Light Sources and Neutron Scattering Facilities in the Scientific User Facilities Division of BES, with a primary responsibility for the five X-ray facilities in BES’ portfolio. She joined the Office of Science in June of 2022. From 2001 to 2019, she was an instrument scientist at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory. In 2019, Dr. Keavney left APS to pursue a two-year Science and Technology Policy Fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with a placement in the Bureau of Energy Resources of the U.S. Department of State, supporting international efforts to promote diversified supply chains for clean energy minerals and robust standards for greenhouse gas emissions measurement and accounting. Following her fellowship, she joined the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) for one year. Dr. Keavney earned her Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, followed by a postdoctoral appointment in Argonne National Laboratory’s Materials Science Division.

Dr. Resham Kulkarni is a Program Manager in Biological and Environmental Research within the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. She focuses on Genomics and Computational Biosciences programs, with involvement in strategic planning, research program administration and oversight. One of the initiatives she is currently working on is the Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment (BRaVE) towards advancing DOE capabilities to support biopreparedness and response. Resham has experience working with U.S. government, academic institutes and industry in bioinformatics and data science related areas. She got her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Texas A&M University and her MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Eric Lancon is the Director of the Scientific Data and Computing Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory and has previously worked at CEA in France and CERN in Switzerland. He has held leadership positions on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientific program, including developing international projects on distributed computing in China, Japan, and Romania. Eric's interests are in data management and data science; he obtained a Ph.D. in particle physics (University Paris Diderot).

Amedeo Perazzo's main area of expertise is in the architecture of data acquisition and data analysis systems for high energy physics, astrophysics and photon science experiments. He is currently the Director of the Controls & Data Systems Division within the Technology and Innovation Directorate at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and PI of the ExaFEL project. His research interests span diverse science and technology areas: pattern recognition, trigger/veto systems, silicon detectors, low noise electronics, Montecarlo simulations, large scale software development, advanced controls systems, data management and HPC. He earned his Ph.D. in Particle Physics from the University of Pavia and his Laurea in Physics from the University of Pisa.

Nicholas Schwarz is a Principal Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and the lead for scientific software and data management at the Advanced Photon Source. He is responsible for the facility-wide effort to develop and support scientific software, data management and remote access systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, and the integration of supercomputing resources with experimental and observational facilities.

Nicholas co-organizes the regular workshop on Extreme-Scale Experiment-in-the-Loop Computing (XLOOP) as a part of the annual SC conference series, and leads and participates in cross-facility collaborations aimed at developing and maintaining common computing and data infrastructure across scientific user facilities.

Prior to his role at Argonne, he developed control and analysis software for laser scanning microscopes and electrophysiology devices at Northwestern University.

Dr. Mallikarjun (Arjun) Shankar is the Section Head for Advanced Technologies in the National Center for Computational Science at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary bridge between computer science and large-scale scientific discovery campaigns that rely on scalable computing and data science. He is a joint faculty appointee at the University of Tennessee’s Bredesen Center, a senior member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM.

Sterling Smith currently manages the Software team in the Computer Systems and Science group at General Atomics, which includes support for the DIII-D National Fusion Facility.  Prior to management he researched turbulence and transport in tokamaks, as well as integrated modeling. He earned his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics at Princeton University with a thesis topic of computational magnetohydrodynamic stability.

Thomas Uram is a Computer Scientist in the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. His research interests include large-scale parallel simulation, analysis, machine learning, workflows, and next-generation computing architectures, in support of computational science. He has worked with applications in particle physics, cosmology, experiment-time analysis of data from light sources and fusion facilities, and connectomics. Tom currently leads Argonne's Nexus effort to integrate leadership computing with experimental facilities.

Frank Würthwein is the Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Executive Director of the Open Science Grid, a national cyberinfrastructure to advance the sharing of resources, software, and knowledge. He is also a physics professor at UC San Diego who received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1995. After holding appointments at Caltech and MIT, he joined the UC San Diego faculty in 2003. His research focuses on experimental particle physics and distributed high-throughput computing. His primary physics interests lie in searching for new phenomena at the high energy frontier with the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. His topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the search for dark matter, supersymmetry, and electroweak symmetry breaking. As an experimentalist, he is interested in instrumentation and data analysis. In the last few years, this meant developing, deploying, and now operating a worldwide distributed computing system for high-throughput computing with large data volumes. In 2010, "large" data volumes were measured in Petabytes. By 2030, they are expected to grow to Exabytes.