About Our Team

Executive Team

Leadership and management of the project

Cloud Native Services

Cloud services and underlying infrastructure

Core Software

Discovery Environment and Data Store development

Science and Training

Science, support, and training

Executive Team

University of Arizona

Nirav Merchant

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Principal Investigator, University of Arizona | nirav@arizona.edu

Nirav Merchant is the Director of the Data Science Institute at the University of Arizona. Merchant brings over 30 years of experience at the University of Arizona as a technology strategist and architect for multi-institutional projects involving scalable data analytics. Merchant directs CyVerse's CI strategy around Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Precision Health Care.

 

 

Tyson Swetnam Ph.D.

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Tyson Swetnam

Co-Principal Investigator, University of Arizona | tswetnam@arizona.edu

Dr. Tyson Swetnam is Research Associate Professor of Geoinformatics in the Institute for Computation & Data-Enabled Insight (ICDI). Swetnam leads CyVerse Science Team supporting multiple NSF Synthesis Centers in Biology, Artificial Intelligence Institutes, Superfund Research, the US Department of Energy and US Department of Agriculture related projects. 

 

 

Edwin Skidmore

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Edwin Skidmore

Director of Infrastructure, University of Arizonaedwin@cyverse.org

Skidmore leads CyVerse Cloud Native Services team developing Infrastructure as Code and DevOps frameworks Skidmore also supports multiple collaborative research projects including Jetstream-2, and CyVerse (Soteria) Health.

 

 

 

Sarah Roberts

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Sarah Roberts

Senior Research Software Engineer, Core Software, University of Arizonasarahr@cyverse.org 

Roberts is lead software engineer of CyVerse Core Software and senior developer of the Discovery Environment. Roberts team of engineers are responsible for the 24/7 availability of the primary CyVerse platform at University of Arizona, as well as providing support to Soteria and CyVerse Austria

 

 

 

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

John Fonner Ph.D.

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John Fonner

Co-Principal Investigator, University of Texas at Austin | jfonner@tacc.utexas.edu

John Fonner leads on CyVerse support from the Life Sciences Computing group at TACC (UT Austin). Dr. Fonner led the development of the CyVerse Software Development Kit (SDK), one of the CyVerse Application Programming Interfaces that enables developers to integrate and access CyVerse backend services.

 

 

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

David Micklos Ph.D.

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David Micklos

Co-Principal Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | micklos@cshl.edu

David Micklos is the founder and Executive Director of the DNA
Learning Center (DNALC) at CSHL. Micklos collaborates with NSF, NIH, and HHMI-supported programs to integrate CyVerse into education programs at the national level. 

 

 

 

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CyVerse Staff

Cloud Native Services

Illyoung Choi
Research and Development Engineer, University of Arizona | iychoi@arizona.edu

Andy Edmonds
Senior Systems Administrator, Cloud Native Services, University of Arizona | aedmonds@cyverse.org

Jeremy Frady
Systems Administrator, Cloud Native Services, University of Arizona | jeremyfrady@cyverse.org

Leonardo Soto Hernandez
Student Software Engineer, University of Arizona

Victoria Quang
Student UX/Accessibility Developer, University of Arizona

Mariah Wall
User Interface and Application Developer, University of Arizona | mgwall@cyverse.org

Zhuoyun (John) Xu
Software Engineer, Cloud Native Services, University of Arizona | xuzy73@cyverse.org

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Core Software

Tony Edgin
Senior Research Software Engineer, Core Software, University of Arizona | tedgin@cyverse.org

Tanmay Agrawal
Student Software Engineer, University of Arizona 

Sue Min Kwon
Student Software Engineer, University of Arizona

Ian McEwen
Research Software Engineer, Core Software, University of Arizona | mian@cyverse.org

Paul Sarando
Research Software Engineer, Core Software, University of Arizona | psarando@cyverse.org

John Wregglesworth
Research Software Engineer, Core Software, University of Arizona | wregglej@cyverse.org

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Science and Education

Michele Cosi
Data Scientist III, University of Arizona | cosi@arizona.edu

Gabe Barros
Student Application Maintainer, University of Arizona

Jeffrey Gillan
Data Scientist III, University of Arizona | jgillan@arizona.edu

Eli Schillinger
Student Software Engineer, University of Arizona

 

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