Team
Spencer R. Pruitt, PhD
Associate Vice President – Academic and Research Technologies
s.pruitt@northeastern.edu
Spencer R. Pruitt received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota Duluth. He then entered the graduate program at Iowa State University, joining the research group of Prof. Mark S. Gordon. After completing his PhD, he continued his work in the Gordon group as a postdoctoral associate. Afterwards, he spent time as a postdoctoral appointee in the Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory working on massively parallel fragmentation methods and porting code to new architectures. Before coming to Northeastern, he worked as a Computational Scientist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he expanded the HPC resources, supported faculty and students with their research computing needs, and served as Interim Director of Academic and Research Computing.
Raphael Schroter, PhD
Director of Cloud and Research Computing
r.schroter@northeastern.edu
Raphael Schroter is the Director of Cloud and Research Computing at Northeastern University. He works closely with university researchers across all disciplines, to help them achieve their research goals using Northeastern’s high performance computing resources. He has more than 15 years of research experience in high energy physics, working in large scientific collaborations. During his years as a research assistant at Harvard University he has lead several cross-functional analysis projects in one of the world’s largest neutrino experiment. He holds a PhD from the University of Geneva.
Manasvita Joshi, PhD
Associate Data Scientist
m.joshi@northeastern.edu
Manasvita Joshi is the Associate Data Scientist on the Research Computing team. She is responsible for supporting researchers take full advantage of Discovery through direct interaction; helping them design and implement methods and tools for data curation and visualization; and providing code optimization and scientific software benchmarking. She has over 10 years of experience in high-energy astrophysics, numerical modeling, data exploration, and data analysis. She has been a PI for multiple NASA-funded projects and reviewer for grant committees. She has spoken at over 30 conferences, taught astronomy courses, and mentored students.
Mariana Levi, PhD
Associate Computational Scientist
m.levi@northeastern.edu
Mariana Levi is an Associate Computational Scientist on the Research Computing team, who serves to support and enhance the research enterprise at Northeastern University. Her main goal is to assist research groups to take full advantage of the Discovery cluster through direct interaction, training, and benchmarking of scientific software. Mariana has a PhD in computational physics from Northeastern University with over 6 years of experience in scientific computing, including large-scale biomolecular simulations and quantum (DFT) calculations.
Shobana Sekar, PhD
Associate Bioinformatician
s.sekar@northeastern.edu
Shobana Sekar is an Associate Bioinformatician for the Research Computing team. She is responsible for assisting faculty and students working with genomic and molecular biology data with developing software stacks and pipelines for high throughput analysis. She has over 7 years of experience in analyzing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data including whole genome, RNA, exome, and ChIP-seq datasets. She has led and supported bioinformatic analyses for several collaborative projects in the neurogenomics and cancer genomics research space and has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications
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Tara Ketchem
Documentation, Training and Outreach Specialist
t.ketchem@northeastern.edu
Tara Ketchem is the Documentation, Training and Outreach Specialist on the Research Computing team with a goal of bridging documentation and communication across the teams in the Academic & Research Technologies department. She has a B.A. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from Western Michigan University. She has been working in technical writing and document management since 2014.
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David Hummel
Senior Research Computing Systems Engineer
d.hummel@northeastern.edu
David is an experienced software developer, systems administrator and cloud operations engineer. He has a B.S. degree in Biochemistry and an M.S. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, both from University of California, Davis. He continued working at UC Davis and then at Boston Children’s Hospital developing web-based bioinformatics tools. At Harvard Medical School he worked as a software developer in the Center for Biomedical Informatics (now DBMI), a research systems architect in Research Computing, and a cloud infrastructure engineer in Harvard Catalyst. Before coming to Northeastern, David worked as a DevOps engineer (aka SRE) in Information Technology Services at Boston College.
Greg Shomo
Senior HPC Administrator
g.shomo@northeastern.edu
Marc Bernstein
Research Software Engineer
m.bernstein@northeastern.edu
Student Assistants
Deena Dasarathan
Graduate Research Assistant
d.dasarathan@northeastern.edu
Akhil Ajikumar
Graduate Research Assistant
a.ajikumar@northeastern.edu
Nikhil Manikonda
Graduate Research Assistant
n.manikonda@northeastern.edu
Surya Periaswamy
Graduate Research Assistant
s.periaswamy@northeastern.edu
Prasanth Dwadasi
Graduate Research Assistant
p.dwadasi@northeastern.edu
Girish Pillai
Graduate Research Assistant
g.pillai@northeastern.edu
Research Computing Student Alumni
Rhea Dcosta
Rohin Arora
Aparna Shelar
Gaurang Davda
Sriram Ravindran
Nitish Tyagi
Sarah Gracia
Jiali Cheng
Khajan Joshi
Arjun Prashanth
Prasad Bandarkar
Srinjoy Chakravarty
Aakanksha Duggal
Faustin Combe
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