Presenter

Daniel S. Katz (he/him) is Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and a research associate professor in Computer Science and the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His interest is in the development and use of advanced cyberinfrastructure to solve challenging problems at multiple scales. His technical research interests are in applications, algorithms, fault tolerance, and programming in parallel and distributed computing. He is also interested in policy issues, including citation and credit mechanisms and practices associated with software and data, organization and community practices for collaboration, and career paths for computing researchers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM, co-founder and current associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Open Source Software, co-founder of the US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE), and co-founder and steering committee chair of the Research Software Alliance (ReSA).