Biography

Curt Hillegas is Associate CIO, Research Computing (previously Director of Research Computing) at Princeton University managing Princeton Research Computing, a collaboration between the Office of Information Technology and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. He has helped to build a centrally managed research computing infrastructure that includes 9 PFLOPS of computational systems and 20 PB of shared storage as well as staffing for system administration, programming, visualization support, and Research Software Engineering. He has been active in EDUCAUSE Research Computing and Data community group and through the annucal conference program committee and Top 10 IT Issues. Dr. Hillegas's past work at Princeton University includes managing the enterprise Unix group, architecting enterprise server and storage solutions, designing and managing central email infrastructure, and general Unix system administration. Dr. Hillegas received his B.S. in Chemistry from Lehigh University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University.