UT Research Computing Faculty Advisory Board
The High Performance & Scientific Computing (HPSC) group provides research computing resources and services to the University of Tennessee community. The resources provided include the Infrastructure for Scientific Applications and Advanced Computing (ISAAC) which is the University computing clusters used for University of Tennessee research and academic support across all campuses.
The UT Research Computing Faculty Advisory Board (FAB) are selected by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Vice-Chancellor for Research to represent faculty interests from the UT research community by reviewing the OIT HPSC resources and services and providing recommendations, feedback, and other input to the OIT Chief Academic Technology Officer/Deputy Chief Information Officer (CATO/CIO) and Associate CIO & Director of HPSC on the operation, management, support, policies, budget, and learning and research activities. The board was newly formed in Fall 2024 and will meet regularly. The following are the current FAB representatives selected by the VCR who have accepted to serve in this role.
Faculty Name | Faculty Title and Campus |
Dr. Adrian Del Maestro | UTK Professor and Department Head, Physics & Astronomy |
Dr. Greg Peterson | UTK Professor, EECS |
Dr. Charles Liu | UTK Associate Professor, Business Analytics & Statistics |
Dr. Kostas Vogiatzis | UTK Associate Professor, Chemistry |
Dr. Holly Mercer | UTK Associate Dean and Professor, University Library |
Dr. Nour Abdoulmoumine | UTK Associate Professor, Biosystems Eng. & Soil Science |
Dr. Karen Johnson | UTHSC Professor and Chair, Preventive Medicine |
Dr. Seungha Shin | UTK Associate Professor, MABE |
Dr Jiajia Chen | UTK Associate Professor, Food Science |
Dr. Vasileios Maroulas | UTK Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Research, Deputy Director AI Tennessee Initiative, Professor of Mathematics |
Dr. Brian Wirth | UTK Governor’s Chair Professor of Computational Nuclear Engineering, Department Head of Nuclear Engineering, Director of Graduate Studies Nuclear Engineering |
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