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Please note: we're still finalizing speakers and will have the updated list by end of October.
Speakers are organized alphabetically by surname.
ScienceIT Consultant
Saroj joined LBL in 2023. He was trained as a physicist and works on software regression tests, performance tuning, scientific workflows, and HPC user interfaces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ScienceIT Consultant
Dmitry serves as an Infrastructure Architect at the Lab, focusing on the intersection of cloud-native services, automated container orchestration, and high-performance computing. He brings extensive expertise in distributed storage filesystems and production-grade AI platforms. Before his current role, Dmitry was a Principal Systems Engineer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC UCSD), where he architected and scaled the National Research Platform—a massive, federated Kubernetes cluster delivering distributed computing resources to the global scientific community—while simultaneously supporting SDSC’s core HPC environments.
ScienceIT Consultant
Henrik first joined the Lab in 1995 as a visiting researcher in the Nuclear Science Division, where he developed software for visualizing nuclear structure data. In 1997, he transitioned to the Data Management R&D group in the Computer Science Division, focusing on data infrastructure planning for experiments at the LHC at CERN and RHIC. In 1998, Henrik co-founded Jitterbit, a data integration and workflow company, where he served as Chief Software Architect and VP of Engineering for ten years.
Science IT Consultant
Andrew has been immersed in the world of IT world since he was 13, from crafting intricate text-adventure games in BASIC on his dad’s trusty 8086, to fixing computers for neighborhood businesses, and orchestrating elaborate online pranks to "break" the internet. After earning his Mathematics degree at UC Berkeley, he rode the dot-com wave, building full-stack LAMP apps on the digital frontier. Today, he specializes in helping scientists harness computational power, streamline complex data workflows, and leverage AI inference services, adding rocket fuel to groundbreaking research.
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.