Presenter

Alan Sill is the Managing Director of the High Performance Computing Center at Texas Tech University, where he is also adjunct professor of physics. He also co-directs the US National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC). Dr. Sill holds a PhD in particle physics from American University and has an extensive track record of work in scientific computing. He has published in topics spanning cloud and grid computing, scientific computing, particle and nuclear physics, cosmic ray physics and radioisotope analysis. He serves as President of the Open Grid Forum, an international computing standards organization. He is an active member of IEEE, the Distributed Management Task Force, and other computing standards working groups, and serves either directly or as liaison for the Open Grid Forum on several national and international standards roadmap committees. Sill is a past member of the editorial board for IEEE Cloud Computing and current member of the advisory board for the StandICT international standards coordination project and several other EU-funded projects. For further details, visit http://www.hpcc.ttu.edu and https://nsfcac.org and/or https://members.educause.edu/alan-sill