Geoffrey C. Fox

Distinguished Scientist and Director

Ph.D. , Cambridge University (Theoretical Physics), 1967

Geoffrey Fox is a professor and distinguished scientist, nationally renowned for his work in the development and application of parallel computers. He currently serves as Director of the Digital Science Center and has served as Director of the Community Grids Lab at Indiana University since 2002.  Fox holds faculty appointments in computer science and physics and serves as Chair of the Department of Informatics within the IU School of Informatics.

Prior to coming to IU, Fox was director of the Computational and Information Science Laboratory at Florida State University. He was also the director of the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University from 1990-2000. His research has led to two commercial spinoffs-WebWisdom.com and Anabas Inc.

Fox has worked with many distinguished scientists in his career; while at CalTech he worked with Nobel Prize winner in physics, Richard Feynman.

Fox’s current projects include research on parallelism and multi-core chips, eScience, cloud computing, and grids to support polar science and life sciences research.

email: gcf@indiana.edu

Alessandro Vespignani

Associate Director

Alessandro Vespignani is an Associate Director of the Digital Science Center and Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS) at Indiana University, where he is also currently a James H. Rudy Professor of Informatics and an adjunct professor of Physics and Statistics. Vespignani obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” After holding research positions at Yale University and Leiden University, he became a member of the condensed matter research group at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (UNESCO) in Trieste. Before joining Indiana University, Vespignani held a faculty position at the Laboratoire de Physique Theorique at the University of Paris-Sud working for the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), of which he is still member at large. Vespignani is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society and is serving in a board/leadership role for a variety of professional associations and journals, as well as for the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation in Turin, Italy.

Andrew Lumsdaine

Associate Director

Professor Andrew Lumsdaine is an Associate Director of the Digital Science Center and Director of the Open Systems Lab. Lumsdaine received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992 and from 1992 through 2001, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include computational science and engineering, parallel and distributed computing, software engineering, generic programming, mathematical software, and numerical analysis. Professor Lumsdaine is a member of ACM, IEEE, and SIAM, as well as the MPI Forum, the BLAS technical forum and the ISO C++ standards committee. In 1995, he received the Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.

D. Scott McCaulay

Associate Director

D. Scott McCaulay serves as director of Applications for IU’s Research Technologies division and is also an Associate Director of the Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center. McCaulay’s career spans three decades and includes experience in computer programming and academic computing as well as project and financial management. McCaulay has earned degrees from Indiana University in Telecommunications and Sociology, holds an MBA in Finance and Information Systems from New York University, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Information Science from Indiana University. In addition to leading a team of managers and technologists that develop advanced software and tools to enhance research computing at Indiana University,  McCaulay serves as a leader for Indiana University’s involvement with the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid national network of supercomputers and data storage resources.

Matthew Link

Associate Director

Matthew Link is Director of Systems for IU's Research Technologies division in addition to serving as an Associate Director for both the Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center and Data to Insight Center.  Link has more than fifteen years of experience working in higher education technology, including student technologies, messaging and telecommunication, Unix Systems support, and high performance computing. In his current roles, Link oversees the management of Indiana University's research technologies systems including high performance computing and data storage. Link is an active member of the planning committee for the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SCxy) Conference and has been involved with the conference since 2003. Link also serves as Technical Equipment Lead for the NSF-funded Polar Grid: Cyberinfrastructure for Polar Science project led by Indiana University.