The 2020 Trusted CI Fellows
Songjie Wang
Cyberinfrastructure Engineer, University of Missouri
Songjie provides services to the research community for cloud infrastructure and deployment, technology transformation, system engineering, and application development. He is actively involved in various research projects that concern problems in cloud computing, cybersecurity, mobile edge computing, and machine learning. He is a liaison between the college and the campus high-performance computing center to facilitate research productivity.
Tonya Davis
Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work, Psychology Counseling,
Alabama A&M University
Tonya is the Program Coordinator of the Graduate Psychology Program. Tonya's broad research interest include understanding how cyber interactions impact behavior. Specific areas of interest include psychological distortions and influence on privacy decision making, Social Engineering and Culture, role of Group Dynamics in cyber crimes, and Technology-infused Mental Health Interventions
Smriti Bhatt
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Smriti Bhatt, Ph.D., does research in security and privacy in Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT). She focuses on securing authorization, communication, and data flow in the context of Cloud enabled IoT domains such as smart home, smart health, and wearable IoT. Dr. Bhatt is passionate about enhancing diversity and inclusion in computing and serves as a co-advisor for a Women in CyberSecurity student chapter. She is active in Grace Hopper Celebration, CyberW, and San Antonio Women in IT.
Luanzheng “Lenny” Guo
Postdoctoral Researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Luanzheng Guo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, working with the HPC Group in the research area between High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems and Machine Learning. Previously, he obtained his PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California-Merced. His PhD research focused on system resilience and reliability in HPC systems. During his PhD study, his research was nominated for the best poster award in SC'16, won outstanding lightning talk in SC'18, and was featured by HPCwire in its "What's New in HPC Research" in 2018. He was also a recipient of Elsevier's outstanding reviewer award in 2018 and the UC Merced Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship in 2020.
Jerry Perez
Director of Cyber Infrastructure Operations, University of Texas at Dallas
Jerry Perez, Ph.D., has over 18 years of experience using and teaching HPC technologies. Dr. Perez is interested in collaborating with other universities to share HPC knowledge; teaching computer science subjects such as programming, systems design, and massive-compute high-throughput computing (compute grids); creating cyberinfrastructure projects to share resources; and promote academic excellence through HPC in the classroom.
Laura Christopherson
Senior Data Scientist, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Laura's background is in theater, art, and information science. Her interests include social informatics, language and communication, user-centered design, and research and design ethics. At RENCI, she works with scientists to design and develop cyberinfrastructure to support them in their research. It is important to her to take good care of the scientists she works with and to make their research data safe and secure.