John Towns
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Director of Collaborative eScience Programs
Director of Collaborative eScience Programs at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. NCSA's Collaborative eScience Directorate works to reduce barriers to the use of cyberinfrastructure so more people in more fields of inquiry can take full advantage of powerful digital resources and services. This unit leads NCSA's participation in the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and the University of Illinois Campus Cluster Program.
He was named a ‘Person to Watch' for 2014, which sheds light on the importance of more future collaboration between XSEDE and Blue Waters, as well as his established history as a leader in the high performance computing community at large.
