Team

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.

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.

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.

Research Computing Facilitator
j.cooke@northeastern.edu

Joseph Cooke is a Research Computing Facilitator on the Research Computing team. He assists researchers with utilizing high performance computing resources through direct interaction. Joseph has over 7 years of experience in using HPC resources for the modeling of magnetic materials which include studying magnetization and energy flow with a primary focus on numerical stability in spin-lattice dynamics. He has his Master of Science in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

Assistant Data Scientist – Coop
d.dasarathan@northeastern.edu

Graduate Research Assistant
a.ajikumar@northeastern.edu

Graduate Research Assistant
n.manikonda@northeastern.edu