Projects

For the past ten years, I’ve worked primarily as a research programmer or research assistant on grant-funded research and research infrastructure projects. This page presents a summary of the grant-funded projects that I’ve been involved over the years.

Transparency Certified

I am currently Co-PI on the NSF-Funded Transparency Certified project (Award 2209628). To increase trust in results from research that relies on computation, we are developing a method of certifying the original execution of a computational workflow on the system it was run on.

HTMDEC HTMDEC

The High-Throughput Materials Discovery for Extreme Conditions (HTMDEC) project is developing processes and tools for the management of high-throughput materials research across distributed teams. The HTMDEC data management system provides support for manual and automated curation of research data from synthesis, experimentation, simulations, and data-driven design.

Whole Tale

Since 2017, I’ve worked as a research programmer and technical project manager on the NSF-Funded Whole Tale project (Award 1541450). We are building an open-source platform for reproducible computational research that enables researchers to publish the computational arfifacts associated with peer-review publications.

CHEESE CHEESE

From 2018 until my departure from NCSA in 2020, I served as the UIUC PI of the NSF-funded CHEESE project (Award 1820608). Cyber Human Ecosystem of Engaged Security Education was an NSF-funded initiative to develop a learning ecosystem for cybersecurity education based on the NDS Labs Workbench platform (below).

TERRA-REF

From 2016 - 2019, I worked as a research programmer on the ARPA-E funded Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture Phenotyping Reference Platform or TERRA-REF project. I worked on the computational pipeline and data access infrastructure as well as metadata and information organization aspects of the project.

NDS National Data Service (NDS)

From 2015 - 2019, I served as a research programmer and technical coordinator (2016 - 2019) for the NDS initiative. NDS was a consortium of data providers, academic libraries, publishers, and cyberinfrastructure providers intended to improve research data access and reuse. We developed the NDS Labs Workbench platform, a system intended to provide low-barrier computational access to research data via container-based environments. This platform was ultimately used as part of the TERRA-REF infrastructure as well as the basis for the CHEESE-Hub platform.

III Improving Information Retrieval by Analysis of Temporal Evidence

I worked as a research assistant on the NSF-funded III project (Award 1217279) conducting research on the temporal aspects of relevance. This includes the exploration of techniques for incorporating temporal information from queries and document collections into general-purpose retrieval models.

HTRC Hathi Trust Research Center

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) enables computational access for nonprofit and educational users to published works in the public domain and, in the future, on limited terms to works in-copyright from the HathiTrust. The HTRC is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.