People & Programs

3 under 30: Next-Generation Researchers

Rising stars help researchers leverage TACC’s powerful resources

Joe Garcia

AT TACC
2 yrs

ALMA MATER
UT Austin

What got you hooked on technology:
Participating in the Student Cluster Competition at SC16.

Project you have been passionate about:
Power consumption awareness of HPC codes for spaceborne applications.

How will your role power discoveries in the future?
I hope to implement new computing technologies that aid in future lunar or Mars space missions.

Brandi Kuritz

AT TACC
2 yrs

ALMA MATER
UT Austin

What got you hooked on technology:
A computational biology class where we used Python to analyze a large genomics dataset.

Project you have been passionate about:
Working on the application programming interfaces TACC builds.

How will your role power discoveries in the future?
My work will allow more scientists to access HPC resources in a more user-friendly way. There's so much data to analyze and access to HPC is critical.

Craig Jansen

AT TACC
4 yrs

ALMA MATER
University of Washington

What got you hooked on technology:
Star Trek's Holodeck.

Project you have been passionate about:
Creating a style guide for all of TACC's websites.

How will your role power discoveries in the future?
The more I can do to advocate for better design, the easier it will be for researchers to get their work done.