Dr. Tsengdar Lee, High End Computing Program Manager
Tsengdar Lee received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University in 1992. He
credits his training as a short-term weather modeler and later contributions to large information
technology (IT) projects, including the National Weather Service's Advanced Weather Information
Processing System, as guiding his present-day decisions. Lee joined NASA Headquarters in 2001 to
manage the Scientific Computing and Global Modeling and Analysis Programs for the Earth Science
Enterprise. Since July 2004, he has served within the Science Mission Directorate as HEC Program
Manager. HEC encompasses the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center and
the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Goddard Space Flight Center.