Biography

Danny Tang is currently the Senior Director for Research Services at the University of Iowa. He leads the division of the University's IT organization responsible for research IT services at scale, such as high performance computing, data analytics, facilitation, specialized systems and application support. 

Danny has extensive experience in leading IT transformations and providing IT services in support of the academic mission across higher education.

He worked 12 years at the University of Illinois, most of that time at the Grainger College of Engineering. He was the inaugural hire into the merger of all IT at the College in 2010, in what will become the 2nd largest IT organization on that campus. During this time of rapid and intense change, Danny helped to build a dynamic, high performing IT organization for a world-renowned, premier Engineering College. He progressed into successive roles in this organization, becoming Assistant Director in 2015.

In 2016 Danny joined Engineering @ Iowa as its Chief Technology Officer during a similar time of great change and upheaval. As mandated by the University’s Board of Regents the University CIO, lead a reorganization of all IT @ Iowa into a unified IT ecosystem called OneIT. This necessitated a significant amount of change in culture and how IT services are delivered within Engineering @ Iowa as well as the entire University.

Drawing from his experiences at Illinois, Danny led the transformation of IT @ Engineering into a unit that exemplifies the “ideal” academic IT service provider in OneIT, with an emphasis on ownership, high-trust relationships, high-touch collaborations, responsiveness, flexibility, and adaptability. Under his leadership, IT @ Engineering made key strategic investments in the support for emergent application of technologies such as IoT, data analytics and deep learning and artificial Intelligence while aggressively working with the central IT organization for various commodity services.