UPDATE: After this interview was finished Data Without Borders finished changing their name to DataKind.
Jake Porway is a machine learning and technology enthusiast who loves nothing more than seeing good values in data. He is the founder and executive director of DataKind, an organization that brings together leading data scientists with high impact social organizations to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity.
Jake was most recently the data scientist in the New York Times R&D lab and remains an active member of the data science community, bringing his technical experience from his past work with groups like NASA, DARPA, Google, and Bell Labs to bear on the social sector. Jake's work has been featured in leading academic journals and conferences (PAMI, ICCV), the Guardian, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and he has been honored as a 2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and a 2012 National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from UCLA.
Nikki Roda is a Master's student at the University of Michigan's School of Information where she is studying Human-Computer Interaction and Information Analysis and Retrieval. She's interested in helping non-profits use their information more effectively. Nikki hosted a Data Without Borders inspired datadive at the University of Michigan this spring and is planning to host another in February 2013. If you're interested in getting involved or just learning more feel free to contact
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Aron works at the intersection of applied mathematics, software engineering, and application domains as diverse as adaptive optics, semiconductor lithography, and ice-sheet modeling. He focuses on the collaborative development of robust, reproducible, and scalable software tools for computational science. He is also a moderator of SciComp Stack Exchange.
Matthew Turk is an NSF OCI Postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, working on simulations of the first stars and galaxies in the universe. He received his PhD from Stanford University and worked at UCSD at a postdoc, and is interested in the high-redshift universe, high performance computing, community building for scientific software,and the development of infrastructure for next-generation simulations, data analysis and visualization. His primary technical projects are yt ( http://yt-project.org/ ) and Enzo (http://enzo-project.org/ ) and he can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/matthewturk/ .
Simon is the Apache Lucene PMC Chair, a Lucene core committer and Apache Software Foundation Member. He has been involved with Lucene and Solr since 2006 and has contributed to several other open source projects within and without the Apache Software Foundation. During the last couple of years he worked on design and implementation of scalable software systems and search infrastructure. His main interests are performance optimizations and concurrency. He studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciene Berlin. He is a member of technical staff at SearchWorkings and a co-founder of the annual BerlinBuzzwords conference on Scalability in Berlin (Germany).
Rajeev Thakur is a Senior Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in 1995. His research interests are in high-performance computing, parallel programming models, runtime systems, communication libraries, and parallel I/O. He is an active member of the MPI Forum that defines the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. He is also co-author of the MPICH2 implementation of MPI and the ROMIO implementation of MPI-IO, which have thousands of users all over the world and form the basis of commercial MPI implementations from IBM, Cray, Intel, Microsoft, and other vendors. MPICH2 received an R&D 100 Award in 2005. Rajeev is a co-author of the book "Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message Passing Interface" published by MIT Press, which has also been translated into Japanese. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2003-2007) and is the Technical Program Chair for the SC12 conference.
Robert Latham is a Software Development Specialist at Argonne National Laboratory. After earning his BS (1999) and MS (2000) in Computer Engineering at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA), he worked at Paralogic, Inc., a Linux cluster start-up. His work with cluster software including MPI implementations and parallel file systems eventually led him to Argonne, where he has worked since 2002.
Rob's research focus has been on high performance IO for scientific applications and IO metrics. He has also worked closely with many application groups to effectively use available tools and technologies. He is the Argonne PI for the Damsel data model library, and the Technical Lead for the ROMIO MPI-IO implementation and the Parallel-NetCDF scientific I/O library. He has also worked on the parallel file systems PVFS (v1 and v2) and I/O tracing and statistics tools.
As founder and CEO of ScaleMP, Shai designed and architected the core technology behind ScaleMP and is responsible for the company’s strategy and direction. Shai has more than 15 years of experience in technology and business roles in IT and venture-backed firms. Before founding ScaleMP Shai was CTO of BRM Capital, a first-tier Israeli venture-capital fund. Shai defined the fund's technology roadmap, which formed the foundation of BRM's investment strategy.
Shai has been an active member of several open source initiatives such as Apache, Jakarta Tomcat, Amanda and the Linux kernel.
Shai holds a B.Tech and BASc from the Jerusalem College of Technology.
Sven Brehmer, President & CEO of PolyCore Software, is a founding member of the Multicore Association and chairman of the Communications API working group. Prior to founding PolyCore Software, Brehmer served as senior director for Wind River's Embedded Platforms Division as a result of the acquisition of Integrated Systems in 2000, where Brehmer served as the chief operating officer and executive vice president of DIAB-SDS. Brehmer was also President and CEO of Diab Data after receiving his Master's degree in Electronics Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Ted Gribb is PolyCore Software’s Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining PolyCore Software, Gribb had sales management positions for Wind River, Diab Data and Mentor Graphics. Previously, he held management positions in software engineering. Gribb received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from DeSales University.
Philip Blood received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah where, using massively parallel molecular dynamics simulations on NSF supercomputers, he studied how proteins remodel cellular membranes. In 2007, Philip joined the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC) as a Senior Scientific Specialist. He currently works with scientists in the fields of computational chemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, economics, and various other disciplines to advance science through supercomputing. Philip also works in the XSEDE Campus Champions program, an effort to help more researchers at U.S. institutions take advantage of the national supercomputing resources available through XSEDE.
Sage Weil designed Ceph as part of his PhD research in Storage Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since graduating, he has continued to refine the system with the goal of providing a stable next generation distributed storage and file system for Linux. Prior to his graduate work, Sage helped found New Dream Network, the company behind DreamHost.com, who now supports a small team of Ceph developers.
Rich Brueckner acquired insideHPC in August, 2010 after racking up over 24 years of experience in High Performance Computing. Known to many in the industry as “the guy in the red hat,” Rich has been a fixture at the Supercomputing conferences since 1991 as an exhibit team manager for Cray Research, SGI, and Sun Microsystems.
Over the past year, Brueckner has been busy growing his media business with the launch of the following sister publications:
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Rajeev Thakur is a Senior Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in 1995. His research interests are in high-performance computing, parallel programming models, runtime systems, communication libraries, and parallel I/O. He is an active member of the MPI Forum that defines the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. He is also co-author of the MPICH2 implementation of MPI and the ROMIO implementation of MPI-IO, which have thousands of users all over the world and form the basis of commercial MPI implementations from IBM, Cray, Intel, Microsoft, and other vendors. MPICH2 received an R&D 100 Award in 2005. Rajeev is a co-author of the book "Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message Passing Interface" published by MIT Press, which has also been translated into Japanese. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2003-2007) and is the Technical Program Chair for the SC12 conference.
Robert Latham is a Software Development Specialist at Argonne National Laboratory. After earning his BS (1999) and MS (2000) in Computer Engineering at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA), he worked at Paralogic, Inc., a Linux cluster start-up. His work with cluster software including MPI implementations and parallel file systems eventually led him to Argonne, where he has worked since 2002.
