Research IT is part of Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) at UC Berkeley. Our mission is to be a trusted partner to the campus research community. We support and develop research information technologies, provide expert guidance and consulting on research data topics, and work with campus centers, colleges, and other units to build collaborative communities of researchers and IT professionals.
Alex is a Research Computing Intern and in his final year studying computer science at UC Berkeley. His research involves studying the circadian rhythms of malaria parasites and computer vision for mosquito behavior. He also organizes Cal Hacks, Berkeley's hackathon.Read more about Alex Goldberg
Amogh Changavi joined the QB3 Genomics team as a bioinformatics programmer in 2022. Professionally, his main responsibilities include processing different types of sequencing data from various labs/institutions through our analysis pipeline, manually maintaining the LTFS server system for...Read more about Amogh Changavi
As the Consulting + Outreach Lead in Research IT at UC Berkeley, I coordinate the consulting efforts across the Data Management and Research Computing programs to offer a holistic approach to data and computation. I have experience working with data across the research...Read more about Amy Neeser
Chris Paciorek is a statistical computing consultant and adjunct professor in the Department of Statistics. He also serves part-time as a user consultant for Berkeley Research Computing.
Areas of expertise: high-performance computing, cloud computing, and programming for data...Read more about Chris Paciorek
Clint Hamilton is a Domain Consultant with Berkeley Research Computing and a PhD student in Finance at the Haas School of Business. His research focuses on behavioral finance. Additionally, he is interested in big data and high performance computing.Read more about Clint Hamilton
Erin is the Service Lead for the UC Berkeley Research Data Management Program. In this role, Erin oversees the program and its services to academic departments and service units and is responsible for providing leadership and collaborative coordination to ensure the...Read more about Erin Foster
Fengchen just joined the group as a Science IT Consultant. Prior to joining the Lab, he worked at a Fintech company as a senior AI Engineer, at RMS (Risk Management Solutions) as a Software Engineer, and at UC San Francisco for 7 years on computational epidemiology using HPC. His research...Read more about Fengchen Liu
Manager, High Performance Computing Services
Berkeley Research Computing University of California, Berkeley
Manager, High Performance Computing Services
Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryRead more about Gary Jung
I am a Research Computing Architect, Service Lead and Information Security Officer in Research IT at UC Berkeley. I currently manage the:
Secure Research Data and Computation (SRDC) Platform, providing secure, scalable,...Read more about Jason C. ChristopherJeff is a Science IT consulting engineer who provides consulting support and services to science and technical programs at the Lab. Prior to joining the Lab, Jeff spent 5 years as the CTO for a national specialty pharmacy company, building the business from the initial founding to the...Read more about Jeff D'Ambrogia
Jeffrey Jacob is a Research IT Domain Consultant and a current Graduate Student studying Molecular Science and Software Engineering. His current research involves tailoring Large Language Models to dissect scientific literature and predict future hotspots of research. Some of Jeffrey’s...Read more about Jeffrey Jacob
Joleen helps on the Secure Research Data and Compute platform and brings deep expertise in service management and service design from her work in bIT.Read more about Joleen Locanas
Director of Research ITRead more about Ken Lutz
Research IT / BRC Domain Consultant and HPC User Support; Research Specialist at UCB CITRISRead more about Mark Yashar
Noah is a recent MPH graduate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is headed to UCSF's BMI PhD program. His research is focused on modeling and predicting disease, with projects in East Africa and California. As a Domain Consultant, Noah works with the clinical data collection tool REDCap...Read more about Noah Baker
Guidance and referrals regarding data management strategies; DMPs for grants; data discovery, storage, security, privacy, sharing, publication, and preservation.Read more about Rick Jaffe
Ronald Sprouse holds a part-time appointment with Research IT as a member of the Secure Research Data and Compute (SRDC) service team. He is also an Information Systems Analyst in the Linguistics Department.
Within SRDC he supports the provisioning and setup of virtual...Read more about Ronald Sprouse
San Vu is a Research Computing Intern and an undergraduate majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His interests include high performance computing, automation, and IC design.Read more about San Vu
Sarah Daniel is a Political Science PhD student, focusing on the evolution of spatial urban planning policies in colonial East Africa. Her research investigates the enduring impacts of these policies on contemporary patterns of spatial separation and inequality, particularly how space affects...Read more about Sarah Daniel
Scarlet Bliss is a MS/PhD graduate in Epidemiology from the School of Public Health. Her work focuses on mixed methods approaches to characterizing and preventing spread of antimicrobial resistance and other enteric pathogens via the environment. She has experience in statistical...Read more about Scarlet Bliss
Tin works on both the system and application support level for both the Berkeley Research Computing and LBL Scientific Computing group. Tin has interest in Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery and Geographic Information System.Read more about Tin Ho
Wei Feinstein joined the HPCS team in 2018. As a user support, she has the passion of providing cutting-edge HPC technologies and services to the scientific research communities at LBNL and UC Berkeley. Prior to the Lab, she was a HPC consultant at LSU, where she...Read more about Wei Feinstein
