ACER Staff
Introduction
The team at ACER endeavors to advance research and education at the University of Illinois Chicago by providing access to high-performance computing and data resources to researchers and professionals alike, along with training, technical support, and expert consultation.
A team of System Administrators and Engineers is primarily responsible for the setup, monitoring, and large-scale deployment of new hardware and services at ACER. Moreover, a team of Computational Specialists, Data Scientists, and Visualization Specialists provides access to one-on-one consultations and training.
Our Team
Lanre Adio
Cloud Engineer
Usman Akram
Linux Systems Administrator
Leonard Apanasevich
Assistant Director, Research Facilitation and Outreach
Sai Budarthi
Research Network Engineer
Smita Darmora
Computational Scientist
Ola Giwa
Data Visualization Specialist
Marius Horga
Assistant Director, Advanced Platforms for Research
Sai Dheeraj Illendula
Biomedical Informatics Research Specialist
Arthur N Jay
Assistant Director, Operations and Projects
Chintan Joshi
Research Security Engineer
Steve Mohr
Lead HPC Engineer
Anas Nassar
Research Software Engineer
Aravind Palavarapu
Linux System Administrator
Himanshu Sharma
Associate CIO for Research Technologies and Innovation
Stuti Singh
Linux System Administrator
Ana Marija Sokovic
Lead Computational Scientist
Venkataraman Varadarajan
Database Specialist
Torin White
Lead Data Scientist