Our Team

Leadership Team

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Maowei Dong
Project Manager
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James Egenrieder
External Evaluator
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Justin Graham
Strategic Research Partnership Liaison
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Vasant Honavar
Associate Director for AI and Strategic Initiatives
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Nicole Lazar
Open Science Liaison
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Brian Manata
Team Science Liaison
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Melanie McReynolds
Associate Director of Education & Training
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Ed O'Brien
Director
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Justin Petucci
Associate Director
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Tyson Swetnam
CyVerse Liaison
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Brian Uzzi
Team Science Lead

NCEMS Staff

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Vandana Agarwala
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State University
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Ajmain Ahmed
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State University
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Maria F. Anglero
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State
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Danilo Ferreira Borges dos Santos
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State University
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Tram Ha
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State
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Xi He
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State University
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Yang Jiang
Assistant Research Professor
Penn State
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Laura Laiton Jimenez
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State
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Irtesam Khan
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State University
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Kobie Kirven
Scientific Consultant
Penn State
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Jill C. Miller
Administrative Assistant
Penn State
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Saswat Kumar Mohanty
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State University
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Alexis Morrissey
Postdoctoral Scholar
Penn State
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Daniel Nissley
Scientific Consultant
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Baizhou Pan
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State University
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Danying Shao
Staff Scientist
Penn State
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Ian Sitarik
Staff Scientist
Penn State
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Polina Tikhonova
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State
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Varun Venkatakrishnan
Scientific Consultant
Penn State
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Quyen Vu
NCEMS Postdoctoral Scholar
Penn State

Former NCEMS Staff

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Ishika Verma
Former Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State

Internal Advisory Board at Penn State

  • Guido Cervone, Director of Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
  • Christina Grozinger, Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
  • Kenneth Knappenberger Jr., Department Head and Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics
  • Tracy Langkilde, Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science
  • Carleen Maitland, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs of College of Information Sciences and Technology
  • Emily Martell, Managing Director of Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
  • Andrew Read, Senior Vice President for Research at Penn State