• Education
• Experience
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• Activities

Education
1992          M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University
1984          B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy, Boston College

Experience

2019	Retired after 25 years at the San Diego Supercomputer Center
2016-2019	Principal Investigator, Science Gateways Community Institute Leading an NSF-funded center of excellence to provide leadership in the development of science gateways, bringing science to the web and democratizing access. SGCI has over 40 staff members, and has been awarded $15M for 5-years, with the opportunity to renew for another 5.
2011-2018	XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support Services, co-director; XSEDE co-principal investigator Co-managing a group of over 70 staff members who provide extended support on a variety of cyberinfrastructure topics (with a particular emphasis on high end computing and data) to the national academic research community. Annual budget of $8M.
2004-2011	Area Director for Science Gateways, TeraGrid Responsible for implementation of revolutionary community interfaces to NSF's cyberinfrastructure resources
2004-2007	Director of Consulting, Documentation and Training, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Responsible for supporting thousands of researchers on SDSC and TeraGrid high performance computing systems
2001-2004	Associate Director, Scientific Computing Division, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Responsible for supporting thousands of researchers on SDSC's high performance computing systems Direction of five groups within the Scientific Computing Division - Scientific Computing Applications, Scientific Computing Services, Grid Applications, Data Applications, Visualization Services
2002-2004	Co-Chair, User Services working group, NSF TeraGrid project Responsible for user support across the nine sites in the cutting-edge production scientific grid project
1998-2001	Project Manager, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Project management for multidisciplinary projects spanning 30 institutions with an annual budget of ~$35M.
1998-2003	Chair, Resources Working Group, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Coordinate national HPC activities across four academic institutions.
1993-1998	Associate Staff Programmer/Analyst, Scientific Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center, General Atomics Led and participated in providing HPC support services to the national academic research community.
1991-1993	Senior Engineer, Fluid Systems Branch, General Atomics Evaluated passive decay heat removal concepts for gas-cooled nuclear reactor designs.
1988-1991	Engineer, Aerodynamics Group, General Dynamics Convair Division Performed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis on a wide range of configurations including wind tunnels, cruise missiles and hypersonic vehicles.

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Google Scholar profile

• Katz, Daniel S., Lois Curfman McInnes, David E. Bernholdt, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Neil P. Chue Hong, Jonah Duckles, Sandra Gesing et al. "Community Organizations: Changing the Culture in Which Research Software Is Developed and Sustained." Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 21, no. 2, 2018, pp. 8-24. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2018.2883051.
• Stewart, Craig A., Richard Knepper, Matthew R. Link, Marlon Pierce, Eric Wernert, and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr. "Cyberinfrastructure, Cloud Computing, Science Gateways, Visualization, and Cyberinfrastructure Ease of Use." In Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Network Architecture, Mobile Computing, and Data Analytics, pp. 157-170. IGI Global, 2019.
• Stewart, Craig A., David Y. Hancock, Julie Wernert, Matthew R. Link, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Therese Miller, Kelly Gaither, and Winona Snapp-Childs. "Return on Investment for Three Cyberinfrastructure Facilities: A Local Campus Supercomputer, the NSF-Funded Jetstream Cloud System, and XSEDE (the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment)." In 2018 IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), pp. 223-236. IEEE, 2018.
• M. Barker, S.D. Olabarriaga, N. Wilkins-Diehr et al., "The global impact of science gateways, virtual research environments and virtual laboratories", Future GenerationComputer Systems(2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.12.026.
• Sandra Gesing, Katherine Lawrence, Maytal Dahan, Marlon E. Pierce, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Michael Zentner. "Science gateways: Sustainability via on-campus teams". Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 94, 2019, Pages 97-102, ISSN 0167-739X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.09.067.
• Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Michael Zentner, Marlon Pierce, Maytal Dahan, Katherine Lawrence, Linda Hayden, and Nayiri Mullinix. 2018. "The Science Gateways Community Institute at Two Years". In Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 53, 8 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3219104.3219142
• Pe Than, Ei Pa Pa, James Herbsleb, Alexander Nolte, Elizabeth Gerber, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Brad Chapman, Aurelia Moser, and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr. "The 2nd Workshop on Hacking and Making at Time-Bounded Events: Current Trends and Next Steps in Research and Event Design." In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. W35. ACM, 2018.
• N. Wilkins-Diehr and T. Daniel Crawford, "NSF's Inaugural Software Institutes: The Science Gateways Community Institute and the Molecular Sciences Software Institute," Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 20, no. 5, 2018, pp. 26-38. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2018.05329813.
• Gesing, S., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Dahan, M., Lawrence, K., Zentner, M., Pierce, M., Hayden, L.B., and Marru, S. (2017) Science Gateways: The Long Road to the Birth of an Institute Proc. of HICSS-50 (50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences), 4-7 January 2017, Hilton Waikoloa, HI, USA, http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41919.
• Wilkins-Diehr, N and S Sanielevici, J Alameda, J Cazes, L Crosby, M Pierce, R Roskies. "An Overview of the XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support Program". High Performance Computer Applications 6th International Conference, ISUM 2015, Mexico City, Mexico, March 9-13, 2015, Revised Selected Papers Gitler, Isidoro, Klapp, Jaime (Eds.) Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-32243-8, 3-13, 2016. doi://10.1007/978-3-319-32243-8.
• Lawrence, K. A., Zentner, M., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Wernert, J. A., Pierce, M., Marru, S., and Michael, S. (2015) Science gateways today and tomorrow: positive perspectives of nearly 5000 members of the research community. Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., 27:4252-4268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3526.
• Katherine A. Lawrence, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Julie A. Wernert, Marlon Pierce, Michael Zentner, and Suresh Marru. 2014. "Who Cares about Science Gateways?: A Large-Scale Survey of Community Use and Needs." In Proceedings of the 9th Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE '14). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 1-4. DOI=10.1109/GCE.2014.11 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GCE.2014.11
• John Towns, Timothy Cockerill, Maytal Dahan, Ian Foster, Kelly Gaither, Andrew Grimshaw, Victor Hazlewood, Scott Lathrop, Dave Lifka, Gregory D. Peterson, Ralph Roskies, J. Ray Scott, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, "XSEDE: Accelerating Scientific Discovery", Computing in Science & Engineering, vol.16, no. 5, pp. 62-74, Sept.-Oct. 2014, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2014.80
• Daniel S. Katz, Sou-Cheng T. Choi, Hilmar Lapp, Ketan Maheshwari, Frank Loffler, Matthew Turk, Marcus D. Hanwell, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, James Hetherington, James Howison, Shel Swenson, Gabrielle D. Allen, Anne C. Elster, Bruce Berriman, Colin Venters. "Summary of the First Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE1)". Journal of Open Research Software, 2014. DOI=http://10.5334/jors.an.
• Stewart, Craig A., Richard Knepper, Matthew R. Link, Marlon Pierce, Eric Wernert, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr. 2014. Cyberinfrastructure, Science Gateways, Campus Bridging, and Cloud Computing. pp. 6562-6572 In: Khosrow-Pour, M. (ed) (2015). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition (10 Volumes) (pp. 1-10392). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2. This chapter is available online at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/18608
• Ye Fan, Yan Liu, Shaowen Wang, David Tarboton, Ahmet Yildirim, and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr. 2014. Accelerating TauDEM as a Scalable Hydrological Terrain Analysis Service on XSEDE. In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 5 , 2 pages. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2616498.2616510
• Richard L. Moore, Chaitan Baru, Diane Baxter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Amit Majumdar, Phillip Papadopoulos, Wayne Pfeiffer, Robert S. Sinkovits, Shawn Strande, Mahidhar Tatineni, Richard P. Wagner, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, and Michael L. Norman. 2014. Gateways to Discovery: Cyberinfrastructure for the Long Tail of Science. In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 39 , 8 pages. DOI=10.1145/2616498.2616540 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2616498.2616540
• Choonhan Youn, Viswanath Nandigam, Minh Phan, David Tarboton, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Chaitan Baru, Christopher Crosby, Anand Padmanabhan, and Shaowen Wang. 2014. Leveraging XSEDE HPC resources to address computational challenges with high-resolution topography data. In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 59 , 2 pages. DOI=10.1145/2616498.2616564 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2616498.2616564
• Anand Padmanabhan, Choonhan Youn, Myunghwa Hwang, Yan Liu, Shaowen Wang, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, and Christopher Crosby. 2013. Integration of science gateways: a case study with CyberGIS and OpenTopography. In Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery (XSEDE '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 28 , 2 pages. DOI=10.1145/2484762.2484808 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2484762.2484808
• Wang, S., Wilkins-Diehr, N., and Nyerges, T. 2012. "CyberGIS - Toward synergistic advancement of cyberinfrastructure and GIScience: A workshop summary." Journal of Spatial Information Science. DOI:10.5311, ISSN: 1948-660X.
• Lawrence, K.A., Wilkins-Diehr, N., 2012. "Roadmaps, Not Blueprints: Paving the Way to Science Gateway Success." XSEDE12 Conference, July 16-20, 2012. ACM Digital Library, DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2335755.2335837.
• Shaowen Wang, Anand Padmanabhan, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Xuan Shi, and Ranga Raju Vatsavai. 2012. Highlights on ACM HPDGIS 2011: the Second International ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems (HPDGIS) 2011: (Chicago, Illinois - November 1, 2011). SIGSPATIAL Special 4, 1 (March 2012), 6-7. DOI=10.1145/2189403.2189406 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2189403.2189406
• Nancy Wilkins-Diehr. 2011. A history of the TeraGrid science gateway program: a personal view. In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM workshop on Gateway computing environments (GCE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-12. DOI=10.1145/2110486.2110488 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2110486.2110488
• Shaowen Wang, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Anand Padmanabhan, Xuan Shi, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, and Jianting Zhang. 2011. HPDGIS 2010 workshop report: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems (San Jose, California - November 2, 2010). SIGSPATIAL Special 3, 1 (March 2011), 8-9. DOI=10.1145/1966478.1966482 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1966478.1966482
• Lawrence, K., and Wilkins-Diehr, N. "Research Report: Making science gateways a success." Featured report at International Science Grid This Week, January 26, 2011, http://www.isgtw.org/feature/research-report-making-science-gateways-success.
• Wilkins-Diehr, N., Baru, C., Gannon, D., Keahey, K., McGee, J., Pierce, M., Wolski, R., Wu, W. "Science Gateways: Harnessing Clouds and Software Services for Science" in Cloud Computing and Software Services: Theory and Techniques, edited by Syed A. Ahson and Mohammad Ilyas. [Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011].
• Wilkins-Diehr, N., and Lawrence, K. A. 2011. "Opening Science Gateways to Future Success: The Challenges of Gateway Sustainability." Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE), 2010 (Supercomputing '10 in New Orleans, LA), 14 Nov. 2010. IEEE Computer Society (Xplore Digital Library).
• Jim Basney, Von Welch, and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr. 2010. TeraGrid Science Gateway AAAA Model: implementation and lessons learned. In Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference (TG '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 2 , 6 pages. DOI=10.1145/1838574.1838576 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1838574.1838576
• Liu, Y., Wang, S., and Wilkins-Diehr, N. 2009. “SimpleGrid 2.0: A Learning and Development Toolkit for Building Highly Usable TeraGrid Science Gateways”. In Proceedings of the 5th Grid Computing Environments Workshop (Portland, Oregon, November 20 - 20, 2009). GCE ‘09. ACM, New York, NY, 1-7. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1658260.1658272.
• Lee Liming, John-Paul Navarro, Eric Blau, Jason Brechin, Charlie Catlett, Maytal Dahan, Diana Diehl, Rion Dooley, Michael Dwyer, Kate Ericson, Ian Foster, Ed Hanna, David L. Hart, Chris Jordan, Rob Light, Stuart Martin, John McGee, Laura Pearlman, Jason Reilly, Tom Scavo, Michael Shapiro, Shava Smallen, Warren Smith, and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr. 2009. TeraGrid's integrated information service. In Proceedings of the 5th Grid Computing Environments Workshop (GCE '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 8 , 10 pages. DOI=10.1145/1658260.1658271 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1658260.1658271
• T. Fleury, Y. Liu, T. Scavo, V. Welch, N. Wilkins-Diehr, "A Web Browser SSO Model for Science Gateways", TeraGrid 09, June, 2009.
• Wilkins-Diehr, N., Gannon D., Klimeck, G., Oster, S., Pamidighantam, S, "TeraGrid Science Gateways and Their Impact on Science", IEEE Computer, volume 41, number 11, November 2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2008.470.
• A. Shelmire, J. Basney, J. Marsteller, V. Welch, T. Scavo, T. Fleury, N. Wilkins-Diehr, "TeraGrid Science Gateways: Scaling TeraGrid Access", UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting 2008 (AHM2008), September, 2008.
• Nancy Wilkins-Diehr. 2008. Clade survey: 2003-2008. In Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Challenges of large applications in distributed environments (CLADE '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 55-56. DOI=10.1145/1383529.1383540 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1383529.1383540
• Wang, S., Liu, Y., Wilkins-Diehr, N., and Martin, S. 2008. "SimpleGrid Toolkit: Enabling Geosciences Gateways to Cyberinfrastructure." Computers and Geosciences, Computers & Geosciences Volume 35, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 2283-2294.
• D. Fraser, et. al., "Engaging with the LEAD Science Gateway Project: Lessons Learned in Successfully Deploying Complex System Solutions on TeraGrid", June 2008, TeraGrid 08.
• C. Baru, C. Youn, N. Wilkins-Diehr, "Scientific Application Portal Development for Research and Education in Cyberinfrastructure", June 2008, Geoinformatics 2008.
• S. Wang, Y. Liu, N. Wilkins-Diehr, S. Martin, "SimpleGrid Toolkit: Enabling Efficient Learning and Development of TeraGrid Science Gateway", November 2007, Grid Computing Environments 2007 Conference Proceedings, ISSN (Online).
• N. Wilkins-Diehr, "Special issue: Science Gateways-- Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources: Editorials", April 2007, Journal of Concurrency in Computation: Practice and Experience. Volume 19, Issue 6 (April 2007), pages 743-749.http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1232528
• V. Welch, J. Barlow, J. Basney, D. Marcusiu, N. Wilkins-Diehr, "A AAAA model to support science gateways with community accounts: Research Articles", "Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience", Volume 19, Issue 6 (April 2007), pages 893-904.
• Nancy R Wilkins-Diehr and Thomas Soddemann. 2006. Science gateway, portal and other community interfaces to high end resources. In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (SC '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 16 . DOI=10.1145/1188455.1188472 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1188455.1188472
• Minster, J., Olsen, K B., Moore, R., Day, S., Maechling, P., Jordan, T., Faerman, M., Cui, Y., Ely, G., Hu, Y., Shkoller, B., Marcinkovich, C., Bielak, J., Okaya, D., Archuleta, R., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Cutchin, S., Chourasia, A., Kremenek, G., Jagatheesan, A., Brieger, L., Majundar, A., Chukkapalli, G., Xin, Q., Banister, B., Thorp, D., Kovatch, P., Diegel, L., Sherwin, T., Jordan, C., Thiebaux, M., Lopez, J., "The SCEC TeraShake Earthquake Simulation," Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract SF31B-05 INVITED, 2004.
• Olsen, K.B., Minster, J.B., Moore, R., Day, S.M. Day, Maechling, P., Jordan, T.H., Faerman, M., Cui, Y., Ely, G., Hu, Y., Shkoller, B., Marcinkovich, C., Bielak, J., Okaya, D., Archuleta, R., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Cutchin, S., Chourasia, A., Kremenek, G., Jagatheesan, A., Brieger, L., Majumdar, A., Chukkapalli, G., Xin, Q., Moore., R., Banister, B., Thorm, D., Kovatch, P., Diegel, L., Sherwin, T., Thiebaux, M., Lopez, J. "SCEC TeraShake- Supporting an Earthquake Storage Intensive Simulation," SCEC 2004 Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, Sep.19-22, 2004.
• A. Natrajan, A. Fox, M. Humphrey, A. Grimshaw, N. Wilkins-Diehr, M. Crowley, C. Brooks III, "Studying protein folding on the Grid: experiences using CHARMM on NPACI resources under Legion", 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10 '01), p. 0014.

Synergistic Activities

• Co-editor, Science Gateways Special Journal Issue, Future Generation Computing Systems, 2018
• US Research Software Sustainability Advisory Committee, 2018-present
• Steering Committee, PEARC conference, 2016-2018
• Bridges External Advisory Committee, 2016-present
• Whole Tale DIBBS project, External Advisory Board, 2016-present
• NSF CAREER Advisory Committee for Dr. Kerk Kee, 2014-present
• Program Committee Second Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2), November 16, 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA
• Co-editor, XSEDE13 Special Journal Issue, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, 2014
• Co-editor, Science Gateway Special Journal Issue, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, 2014, 2015
• Steering Committee, Science Executive Education, led by Nick Berente, U Georgia, 2013
• Program Committee First Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE1), November, 2013, Denver, CO, USA
• Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Board, May 2013 - present
• Project Advisory Board, Scientific Gateway Based User Support (SCI-BUS), 2012-2014
• Advisory committee, Center for Trustworthy Cyberinfrastructure, 2012-present
• FutureGrid User Advisory Board, 2010-2014
• Chair, Community Driven Improvement of Globus Software (CDIGS) External Advisory Committee, 2008-2010
• Cybera International Strategic Advisory Committee, March, 2008-2013
• Panelist on multiple NSF and international review panels participating in decisions on hundreds of millions of dollars of funding.
• Co-chair of the Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems (HPDGIS) 2012, November 6, 2012, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
• Program Committee, eScience 2012-present
• Co-chair Workshop on Extending High-Performance Computing Beyond its Traditional User Communities, in conjunction with eScience 2012, October 8, 2012, Chicago, IL, USA
• Program Committee, First International Conference on Space, Time, and CyberGIS (CyberGIS12), August 6-9, Urbana, IL, USA
• Program Committee, XSEDE conference series, 2012-present. General Chair for XSEDE13.
• Program Committee, International Workshop on Science Gateways 2011-present, keynote talk 2012
• Co-General chair, reviewer, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems (HPDGIS) 2010
• Co-Program chair, program committee member, Gateway Computing Environments 2010, 2011, 2014-present
• Program chair, Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE), 2007
• Editor, Special Journal Issue on Science Gateways, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, 2006
• Track chair, reviewer, TeraGrid conferences 2004-2010
• Reviewer, Advances in Engineering Software
• Reviewer, Future Generation Computer Systems
• Reviewer, Journal of Grid Computing
• Reviewer, Computing in Science and Engineering
• Reviewer, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
• Reviewer, Environmental Modelling and Software journal
• Reviewer, Geoinformatica