Speakers

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Speakers are organized alphabetically by surname.

Sophia M. Caceres

EHS Program Manager

Sophia is the Program Manager for Performance Metrics & Data Analytics in the Environment, Health & Safety Division. She tells stories through data and leads an Ops Analytics Community of Practice with over 30 members. Sophia has been with Berkeley Lab for 10 years and worked in the Budget Office prior to her time at EHS. 

Darrin Chavarria

Audio Visual
Technical Specialist

Darrin is an AV Tech Specialist at Berkeley Lab, focused on providing video conferencing solutions and building Zoom Room infrastructure.

Kuldeep Chawla

VMware and
SLA Technical Lead

Kuldeep joined ScienceIT in December 2020 from the User Support Group. Kuldeep is the main architect of SVM and ALS VMware Infrastructure. Kuldeep now leads the Science IT SLA effort. 

Saurabh Chhatwal

Google Data Analytics, Visualization, and API Management Specialist Customer Engineer

I am a 7 year Googler, with 20+ years of experience in various IT Leadership roles. I have advised 50+ GCP Customers and specialize in Data Analytics, Visualization, and API Management.

Luis Corrales

IT Collaboration Services
Group Lead

Luis Corrales joined Berkeley Lab in 2013 and is the group lead for the Collaboration Services Group at Berkeley Lab.

Jeff D'Ambrogia

ScienceIT Consultant

Jeff D'Ambrogia is a ScienceIT Consultant and also manages the AWS and Google Cloud programs at Berkeley Lab.

Wei Feinstein

HPC System Engineer
and Consultant

Wei Feinstein is an HPC system engineer and consultant in user services. Trained as a computational biologist, she has first-hand experience as an HPC user and over ten years as a service provider.

Karen Fernsler

HPC System and
Storage Engineer

Trained as a physicist, Karen Fernsler is an HPC System and Storage engineer with over 20 years of experience in supporting High Performance Computing clusters.

Tim Fong

ScienceIT Consultant

Tim Fong is a Science IT consultant. Before joining the Lab, he worked in the private sector as a Data Scientist across a variety of industries, including computer vision, people analytics, and casino gaming.

Miles Green

Audio Visual
Technical Specialist

Miles Green is the resident AV Tech Specialist at Berkeley Lab, focused on providing video conferencing solutions and building Zoom Room infrastructure.

Geoff Hamm

Scientific Publications Manager

Geoff has been the lead for DOE’s public access compliance efforts at the Lab since 2019. 

Derrick Johnson

Collaboration Services and Identity Management Engineer

Derrick joined the Lab and has been in the Collaboration Services group since 2015, supporting the Google Workspace along with other collaborative applications: Confluence, Indico, Grouper.

Jay Krous

Cyber Security

Jay Krous is the Cyber Security group lead for Berkeley Lab. Jay joined Berkeley Lab in 1999 and has worked on a wide variety of IT and cyber security projects.

Fengchen Liu

ScienceIT Consultant

Fengchen Liu, a ScienceIT Consultant, who was a senior AI/ML engineer and a software engineer at Fintech and Insurance companies, and a researcher at UCSF focusing on the Computational Epidemiology.

Aashish Sharma

Cyber Security

Aashish Sharma is a member of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)’s Cyber security team since November of 2010. Prior to joining LBNL, Aashish was in the cyber security team at NCSA from 2003-2010.  At LBNL he is directly responsible for day-to-day security operations of the Berkeley Lab and performs On-Call duties which include having access and mandates to block/unblock IP addresses, domains and network(s), in addition to performing full incident response procedures in an event of a compromise. Aashish is also responsible to run Bro IDS at the Berkeley Lab.

Richard Simon

Network Operations Manager

If it's IT, I've probably done it. Over my nearly 30 years in IT, I've worked in small and large places, on small and large networks, in the public sector, private sector, education, and non-profits. Worked for start-ups and established companies. I've done user support, networking, software, databases, cloud computing, and mainframes. There's always something new to learn in IT, which is what I love about it.

Nicolette Stepakoff

Google Workspace Specialist

Nicolette is a dynamic and results-driven Public Sector Google Workspace Customer Engineer, whose unwavering commitment to fostering adoption and delivering technical solutions has made her a standout professional in her field. With a profound vision to empower individuals and organizations to transform their world, Nicolette brings a unique blend of expertise to the table.

Adam Stone

CIO/IT Division Director

Adam is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Information Technology (IT) Division Director at Berkeley Lab. With more than 16 years experience as the Deputy CIO, Adam leads risk-management, cyber security strategy, assurance and compliance, and overall technical strategy in cloud, HPC, collaboration technologies, and data centers. Prior to joining the Lab, Adam spent 8 years as a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

Ahmad Sultan

Cybersecurity Policy Manager and Privacy Officer

Ahmad Sultan is the Cybersecurity Policy Manager and Privacy Officer at Berkeley Lab. He has advised on a broad range of technology policy challenges, from testifying before Congress on Cybersecurity Challenges for State and Local Governments, to leading the Technology Policy and Research team at the Center for Technology and Society. Ahmad has a Master of Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. At Cal, Ahmad also designed and taught a course on Speech and Affordances on Social Media as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information.

Pat Tura

Program Manager

Pat Tura joined the Lab in 2015 as an IT Program Manager. She collaborates with internal and external teams to facilitate and manage program implementation based on business objectives and effective user experiences. 

Meghan Zodrow

Graphic Designer

Meghan Zodrow joined the Lab in 2022 with Creative Services as a Graphic Designer. She contributes her talents to visual communications and design, including the Berkeley Lab Design System (BLDS) and implementation.