Researcher Spotlight
Ilya Zaslavsky
From keeping kids safer from exposure to COVID at school, to working on methods to predict mass shootings, the director of SDSC’s Spatial Information Systems Laboratory focuses his research on distributed information management systems—particularly spatial and temporal data integration, geographic information systems and spatial data analysis. He also teaches courses at HDSI and GPS on campus.
Meet Our Experts
Ilkay Altintas, Ph.D
Chief Data Science Officer
Expertise
- Scientific workflows
- Big Data applications
- Distributed computing
- Reproducible science
- Kepler Scientific Workflow System
James Bordner, Ph.D.
Senior Computational Scientist
Expertise
- Parallel software development
- Distributed asynchronous algorithms
- Performance analysis and optimization
Hans-Werner Braun
Research Scientist
Expertise
- Internet infrastructure, measurement/analysis tools
- Wireless and sensor networks
- Internet pioneer (PI, NSFNET backbone project)
- Multi-disciplinary and multi-intitutional collaborations
Sandeep Chandra, M.S.
Executive Director
Expertise
- Compliance (NIST, FISMA, HIPAA)
- Scientific Data Management
- Cloud Computing
- Systems Architecture & Infrastructure Management
Dong Ju Choi, Ph.D.
Senior Computational Scientist
Expertise
- HPC software, programming, optimization
- Visualization
- Database and web programming
- Finite element analysis
Amit Chourasia, M.S.
Senior Visualization Scientist
Expertise
- Visualization and computer graphics
- Ubiquitous Data Sharing Infrastructure
KC Claffy, Ph.D.
Director
Expertise
- Internet measurement infrastructure, data collection, and privacy-respecting data sharing
- Measuring and mapping attributes of the Internet related to infrastructure security and stability
- Future Internet architecture research
- Ethics of information technology research
Jose Duarte, Ph.D.
Assistant Project Scientist
Expertise
- Structural Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Structural Biology
- Crystallography
- Scientific Software Development
Andreas Goetz, Ph.D.
Director
Expertise
- Quantum Chemistry
- Molecular Dynamics
- AMBER and ADF Developer
- GPU Accelerated Computing
Amarnath Gupta, Ph.D.
Director
Expertise
- Bioinformatics
- Scientific data modeling
- Information integration and multimedia databases
- Spatiotemporal data management
Christine Kirkpatrick, M.A.S.
Division Director
Expertise
- Research Data Management
- FAIR/FAIR Digital Objects
- Infrastructure
- Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Amit Majumdar, Ph.D.
Division Director
Expertise
- Parallel algorithm development
- Code profiling, tuning and optimization
- Analysis of scientific applications on HPC architectures
- Science Gateways
Viswanath Nandigam, M.S.
Director
Expertise
- Scientific data management
- Data distribution platforms
- Portal technologies
- Parallel and federated database systems
Mai Nguyen, Ph.D.
Lead
Expertise
- Machine Learning/Deep Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Interdisciplinary Research
Francesco Paesani, Ph.D
Lead
Expertise
- Theoretical chemistry
- Computational chemistry
- Physical chemistry
Wayne Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
Distinguished Scientist
Expertise
- Supercomputer performance analysis
- Novel computer architectures
- Bioinformatics
Peter Rose, Ph.D.
Director
Expertise
- Structural Bioinformatics
- Structural Biology
- Computational Biology
- Computational Chemistry
- Structure-based Drug Design
- Distributed Computing
- Big Data Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Scientific Software Development
Igor Sfiligoi, M.S.
Lead Scientific Software Developer and Researcher
Expertise
- High-Throughput Computing
- Globally distributed compute and data federations
- Cybersecurity in globally distributed systems
James Short, Ph.D.
Lead Scientist
Expertise
- Market adoption, business application and economics of blockchain
- Valuation of data and information markets
- Textual analysis of data (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning)
- Corporate data policy and regulatory / legal frameworks
Robert Sinkovits, Ph.D.
Director
Expertise
- Data-intensive and high-performance computing
- Software tuning and optimization
- Structural biology
- Bioinformatics, with an emphasis on immunology
- Software development for scientific applications
Subhashini Sivagnanam, M.S.
Manager
Mahidhar Tatineni, Ph.D.
User Support Group Lead
Expertise
- Optimization and parallelization for HPC systems
- Aerospace engineering
Mary Thomas, Ph.D.
Computational Data Scientist
Expertise
- CyberTraining
- HPC software and programming
- Cyberinfrastructure and emerging technologies
- Portals and web programming
Igor Tsigelny, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Expertise
- Computational drug design
- Personalized cancer medicine
- Gene networks analysis
- Molecular modeling/molecular dynamics
- Neuroscience
Frank Würthwein, Ph.D.
Director
Expertise
- High-capacity Data Cyberinfrastructure
- High-energy Particle Physics
Kenneth Yoshimoto, PhD
Computational Scientist
Expertise
- Biology
- Workflow Architecture
- Gateway Design
Ilya Zaslavsky, Ph.D.
Director
Expertise
- Spatial and temporal data integration/analysis
- Geographic information systems
- Hydrology
- Spatial management infrastructure
Andrea Zonca, Ph.D.
Lead
Expertise
- Data-intensive computing
- Kubernetes cluster administration
- Distributed computing with Python
- Cosmic microwave background
