Biography

Alan Sill is a research professor of Computer Science and an adjunct professor of physics at Texas Tech University, where he co-directs the multi-university US National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) and the related NSF-funded REPACSS project. He is an internationally recognized expert on large-scale advanced computing systems who has played a formative role in design and creation of many scientific distributed computing, cloud and grid development projects and associated standards efforts. He is the past Managing Director of the High Performance Computing Center at Texas Tech. Dr. Sill currently serves as President of the Open Grid Forum and a current and past member of advisory boards for several international cloud and distributed computing projects. Dr. Sill has coordinated several large-scale scientific software development projects, including national and international-scale grid, cloud and distributed computing operational infrastructures used by multiple research communities. His recent work has focused on extending the capabilities of such systems to use of renewable energy across industry/university boundaries and on promotion of best practices for advanced distributed computing in data-intensive settings. He is an author on over 650 peer-reviewed publications covering topics in particle and nuclear physics, scientific computation, cosmic ray and radioisotope analysis, and has organized and chaired conferences on cloud and grid computing, autonomic computing, cosmic ray detectors and authentication technologies.

A full CV and bio are available at https://myweb.ttu.edu/asill.