Geoffrey C. Fox

Distinguished Scientist and Director

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

Geoffrey Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and is now professor of Informatics and Computing, and Physics at Indiana University where he is director of the Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing.  He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University. He has supervised the PhD of 62 students and published over 600 papers in physics and computer science. He currently works in applying computer science to Bioinformatics, Defense, Earthquake and Ice-sheet Science, Particle Physics and Chemical Informatics. He is principal investigator of FutureGrid – a new facility to enable development of new approaches to computing. He is involved in several projects to enhance the capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions. 

phone: 812-219-4643

email: gcf [at] indiana [dot] edu

website:  http://www.infomall.org

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.

Judy Qiu

Assistant Director

Ph.D., Syracuse University (Computer and Information Science), 2005

Judy Qiu graduated from Syracuse University with an Outstanding Graduate Student Award, completing her thesis is in area of web services and collaboration systems. In 2006, she started the multicore project with Microsoft, Inc. and initial Post Doctoral work focusing on performance of threading versus MPI in both kernels and data mining application. This research effort has evolved into the current SALSA project http://salsaweb.indiana.edu/salsa/ encompassing data-intensive computing at the intersection of Cloud and multicore technologies. Qiu’s research interests involve the architecture and use of leading-edge technologies, with special emphasis on their value to important applications such as life science applications and data intensive technologies using Dryad and Hadoop.

As an Assistant Director for the Community Gris Lab, Qiu leads the SALSA research team and supervises research activities of both professional staff and PhD students from the IU School of Informatics and Computing.  Qiu is committed to education and diversity, including projects focusing on undergraduate research and involving students from under-represented communities. She is also active in service to the technical community, serving as a member of conference program committees, a reviewer for journal and conference publications, and an organizer of numerous workshops, tutorials, and exhibitions for national and international conferences.

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.