October 4: Crash Course in Research Computing
Join the Office of Research on Friday, October 4th at 10:00am for a crash course on the university’s research computing resources that can enhance your research endeavors. This Team Research Forum will provide an overview of essential resources, including high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, data storage solutions, and software tools. Speakers will provide practical tips on effectively integrating these resources into your research workflow— register now to secure your spot!
Charles Bookman
Technical Director
UC Davis HPC Core Facility
Charles has been with UC Davis since 2013, when he started as a system administrator before advancing to a role in Risk and Safety Solutions as an architect, followed by a supervisor role with the Banner team in IET.
As the Operations Director of HPPCF, Charles empowers users to maximize HPCCF’s resources. He encourages direct communication through the designated email [email protected] emphasizing the importance of specifying the system requiring assistance among the ten HPC clusters supported on campus. Despite resource constraints, his commitment to prioritizing user needs underscores his dedication to providing optimal support.
Carl Stahmer
Executive Director
UC Davis DataLab
Carl Stahmer is the Executive Director of UC Davis DataLab: Data Science and Informatics. He joined the faculty of the English Department as Adjunct Associate Professor in 2018. His research is focused on the development and application of digital approaches to bibliography and print history, with a particular focus on the early modern period.
Stahmer has been working in the computational and digital humanities since the early 1990s, when he co-founded the Romantic Circles website for which he served as the technical lead and Co-General Editor for the next ten years. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.
Ian Korf
HPC Advisory Committee Chair
Associate Director, Bioinformatics at Genome Center
High-throughput technologies are transforming biology, medicine, agriculture, and related fields. Biology is now incredibly data-rich and requires computers to organize and analyze the data. Korf’s research mixes -omic technologies and information technology to make new discoveries in genome structure and function. His lab is highly collaborative, and always welcomes potential research partners. Current interests include milk biology, gene prediction, genome assembly, sequence alignment, DNA-protein interactions, intron function, epigenetics, and more.
JP Graff
Associate Professor
Director of Clinical Informatics
UC Davis Health
Dr. Graff is the director of clinical informatics at UC Davis Medical Center, actively training the next generation of physicians on how technology can improve the lives of patients and the physicians who work with them. Through his role in informatics and his expertise in machine learning, he has worked on a California wide initiative to classify the causes and types of Alzheimer’s dementia; working closely with his colleges at the other University of California campuses. Additionally, Dr. Graff has applied his expertise in Hematopathology in several publications related to the recent and ongoing COVID-10 pandemic and its impacts on the hematologic system. These publications help diagnosis and treat those critically ill with the virus as we discover more about its Pathophysiology.
