Speakers

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.

Samantha Alonso

Student Assistant, IT

Samantha is an incoming junior transfer student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Data Science with a domain emphasis in Applied Mathematics and Modeling. She joined the lab in 2023 and has since been contributing to the Photo Archive project, working under the guidance of Thor Swift and Fengchen Liu.

Goldy Arora

Customer Engineer, Google

Goldy is a Customer Engineer at Google, specializing in Google Workspace and AI-powered productivity solutions. He helps organizations leverage tools like Gemini to transform collaboration, efficiency, and innovation at scale.

Peter Buffon

Security Engineer

Pete Buffon joined Berkeley Lab in 2023 and is a member of the Berkeley Lab Cyber Security team. Pete works on a wide variety of security operations areas including vulnerability management, incident response, and cloud security.

Sophia M. Caceres

EHS Program Manager

Sophia Caceres is the Program Manager for Performance Metrics & Data Analytics within the Environment, Health and Safety Division. Sophia is passionate about data operations management and continues to work with subject matter experts to help them analyze, visualize and tell stories with their data. Sophia has dedicated the past 12 years to Berkeley Lab, previously serving in the Budget Office before her current role at EHS.

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.

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.

Gary Jung

Scientific Publications Manager

Gary Jung is the Department Head for ScienceIT at the Lab and is the manager for the High Performance Computing service at UC Berkeley. He also led the effort to launch Lawrencium in 2008, a Top500 list HPC Linux cluster at the time, in order to make institutional HPC available to all Lab researchers. Other projects include a strategic role in the development of the highly successful Berkeley Research Computing program at UC Berkeley in 2014. Gary Is one of the recipients of the 2023 Director’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

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.

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.

Matthew Paterno

Product Manager, Zoom

Matthew Paterno is a product manager at Zoom, working on Zoom Whiteboard and other productivity applications.

Andrew Schmeder

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.

Jared Schober

IT Policy Program Manager

Jared Schober is an IT Policy Program Manager on the Lab's IT Policy team, with a background in IT consulting and public policy. In this role, Jared focuses on government relations and policy related to IT and cybersecurity and their potential impact on lab research and operations, as well as managing the Lab's relationship with the rest of the UC's IT community.

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.

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.

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