Team

Research Computing Team

Rufus Behr

Research Software Engineer

Rufus Behr is responsible for designing and implementing well-engineered software solutions that enhance research productivity and reliability. He earned his BSc in Computing Science and Mathematics from the University of Aberdeen, where his undergraduate thesis was on Author-styled Latin Text Generation. His prior work experience includes developing software in insurance, finance, and academic research settings.

Serena Caplins, PhD

Associate Bioinformatician

Serena has extensive experience with non-model organism genomics, including de novo genome or transcriptome assembly, genome annotation, genome liftover, variant calling, and population genetics. She is eager to help biologists with their computing needs and is skilled in experimental design (GWAS, Population genetics, and quantitative genetics), data analysis, and visualization in RStudio. Serena earned her PhD from UC Davis in Population Biology.

Joseph Cooke, PhD

Computational Scientist

Joseph assists researchers across multiple departments with utilizing high performance computing (HPC) resources through direct interactions. He has been working with HPC resources to model magnetic materials, including studying magnetization and energy flow with a primary focus on numerical stability in spin-lattice dynamics since 2014. Joseph also has experience in benchmarking scientific code to determine optimal run conditions on HPC resources. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tara Ketchem

Documentation, Training and Outreach Specialist

Tara is tasked with the 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.

Timothy Rudenko

HPC Systems Administrator

Research Computing Student Assistants

Rakshith Dharmappa

Graduate Research Assistant
r.dharmappa@northeastern.edu

Akshit Jain

Graduate Research Assistant
a.hasmukhkumarjain@northeastern.edu

Tanmay Joshi

Graduate Research Assistant
t.joshi@northeastern.edu

Naga Sai Sarada Priya Mandala

Graduate Research Assistant
n.mandala@northeastern.edu

Research Computing Student Alumni

Akhil Ajikumar

Rohin Arora

Prasad Bandarkar

Srinjoy Chakravarty

Keval Paresh Chheda

Jiali Cheng

Neelima Cherukuri

Faustin Combe

Gabriela Henao Cure

Deena Dasarathan

Gaurang Davda

Rhea Dcosta

Aakanksha Duggal

Prasanth Dwadasi

Sarah Gracia

Khajan Joshi

Karan Sunil Joisher

Keerthana Jaikumar Kolimarla

Ziqing Lin

Nikhil Manikonda

Rohit Nair

Hrishikesh Sanjay Pawar

Surya Periaswamy

Vrushali Phaltankar

Girish Pillai

Arjun Prashanth

Sriram Ravindran

Paarthvi Sharma

Aparna Shelar

Prajwal Shenoy

Nitish Tyagi

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