Presenter

Dr. Dan Stanzione, Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin since 2018 and Executive Director of the Texas Advanced Supercomputing Center (TACC) since 2014, is a nationally recognized leader in high performance computing. He serves on the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force, formed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He is the principal investigator for an NSF grant to deploy Frontera, the fastest supercomputer at any US University. Stanzione is also the PI of TACC's Stampede2 and Wrangler systems, supercomputers for high performance computing and data-focused applications, respectively. For six years, he was co-PI of CYVerse , a large scale NSF life sciences cyberinfrastructure. Stanzione was also a co-PI for TACC's Ranger and Lonestar supercomputers, large-scale NSF systems previously deployed at UT Austin.