Team
Research Computing Team
Rufus Behr
Research Software Engineer
r.behr@northeastern.edu
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 s.caplins@northeastern.edu
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 j.cooke@northeastern.edu
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 & Outreach Specialist t.ketchem@northeastern.edu
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 t.rudenko@northeastern.edu
Greg Shomo
Senior HPC Administrator g.shomo@northeastern.edu
Greg came to Northeastern’s Research Computing team with over 22 years of experience working at TechSquare as a computer consultant and trainer. He specializes in Linux in higher education and research environments. He has also managed high-performance computing resources systems at numerous universities, including MIT, Tufts, and Northeastern for over 20 years.
Student Assistants
Neelima Cherukuri
Assistant Bioinformatician Co-op
ln.cherukuri@northeastern.edu
Rakshith Dharmappa
Assistant Content Developer
r.dharmappa@northeastern.edu
Ziqing Lin
Assistant Computational Scientist Co-op
lin.ziqin@northeastern.edu
Hrishikesh Sanjay Pawar
Graduate Research Assistant
h.pawar@northeastern.edu
Vrushali Phaltankar
Graduate Research Assistant
v.phaltankar@northeastern.edu
Girish Pillai
Graduate Research Assistant
g.pillai@northeastern.edu
Paarthvi Sharma
Graduate Research Assistant
p.sharma@northeastern.edu
Prajwal Shenoy
Graduate Research Assistant
pr.shenoy@northeastern.edu
Research Computing Student Alumni
Akhil Ajikumar
Rohin Arora
Prasad Bandarkar
Srinjoy Chakravarty
Keval Paresh Chheda
Jiali Cheng
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
Nikhil Manikonda
Rohit Nair
Surya Periaswamy
Arjun Prashanth
Sriram Ravindran
Aparna Shelar
Prajwal Shenoy
Nitish Tyagi
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