Scope and Responsibilities

This committee provides strategic leadership and vision to accelerate BU research with leading research technology infrastructure and services. Committee members collaborate with IS&T to leverage industry partnerships or sponsored programs to enhance and expand the impact of BU research infrastructure. Committee scope ranges from advanced networking to high performance computing, big data, specialized research applications, and computationally-intensive research support across a wide range of disciplines. This committee is a partnership between the faculty, IS&T and the office of the VP Research.

Co-chairs

  • Anita DeStefano, Professor, Biostatistics/LinGA, SPH
  • Gloria Waters, Vice President & Associate Provost for Research

Support

  • Wayne Gilmore, Director, Research Computing

Members

  • Azer Bestavros, Professor, Computer Science, CAS
  • Jacob Bor, Assistant Professor of Global Health/Epidemiology, SPH
  • Eleni Castro, OpenBU and Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Libraries
  • Dino Christenson, Associate Professor, Political Science, CAS
  • David Coker, Professor, CAS Chemistry
  • Roscoe Giles, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG
  • Jamie Goebel, Manager, Research Computing, ENG
  • Lei Guo, Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies, COM
  • W. Evan Johnson, Associate Professor, Computational Biomedicine, BUSM
  • Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor, Medicine, BUSM
  • Eric Kolaczyk, Professor of Statistics & Director of Hariri Institute, CAS
  • Chunyu Liu, Associate Professor, Biostatistics, SPH
  • Abraham Matta, Professor, Computer Science, CAS
  • Mark McComb, Research Assistant Professor, BUMC
  • Stefano Monti, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, BUMC
  • Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG
  • Tyler Perrachione, Assistant Professor, SAR
  • Claudio Rebbi, Professor, Physics, CAS
  • Nachiketa (Nachi) Sahoo, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Questrom
  • Anders Sandvik, Professor, Physics, CAS
  • Johannes Schmieder, Assistant Professor, Economics, CAS
  • Saul Youssef, Research Associate Professor, Center for Computational Science, CAS