SCI Institute Director and Presidential Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah. US.

“Democratizing Access to Science Data”

Abstract

Open and equitable access to scientific data is essential to addressing important scientific and societal grand challenges, and to the research enterprise more broadly. This talk will discuss the importance and urgency of open and equitable data access and explores the barriers and challenges to such access. It then introduces the vision and architecture of the National Data Platform project aimed at catalyzing an open, equitable and extensible data ecosystem, and highlights key usecases.

Bio

Manish Parashar is Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, Chair in Computational Science and Engineering, and Presidential Professor, School of Computing at the University of Utah. His research interests are in the broad areas of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering. Manish is currently on an IPA appointment at the National Science Foundation where he is serving as Office Director of the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and leads investments in national cyberinfrastructure. He also serves as Co-Chair of the National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on the Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force. Manish is the founding chair of the IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC), Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is Fellow of AAAS, ACM, and IEEE/IEEE Computer Society. For more information, please visit http://manishparashar.org.

Manish is a returning speaker. Please refer to his 2023 talk “Harnessing the Computing Continuum for Urgent Science“.

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