NTSC is under the direction of Ravi Vadapalli, Ph.D., senior director, NTSC, and reports to Chris McCoy, UNT and UNT System Chief Information Officer.
NTSC Leadership
Ravi Vadapalli, Ph.D.
Senior Director, NTSC, Research IT Services | 940-369-6046 | GAB, Room 535 • Feature Article
Responsibilities: Leadership of NTSC, NSF CAC Center affiliate site director.
Interests: Enabling computational research and development, industry-research partnerships, workforce development, cloud and autonomic computing, fundraising for students
Education
Ph.D., 1994, Nuclear Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
M.S., 2002, Computational Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Miss.
B.S., 1985, Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
Scientific Computing Full-time Staff
Richard Herrington, Ph.D.
Data Scientist, Data Science and Analytics | 940-565-2140 | GAB, Room 535
Responsibilities: DSA team lead, research consulting, modeling analyst
Data and Information Science Liaison to: All UNT Non-STEM Colleges
Interests: Computational statistics, evolutionary computation, robust statistics, resampling-based inference, Bayesian inference, big-data frameworks, machine learning methods, latent variable modeling, mixed-effects modeling
Education
Ph.D., 2001, Quantitative Methods, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
M.S., 1996, Experimental Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
B.S., 1989, Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo.
Yuguang Ma, Ph.D.
Computational Scientist, High-Performance Computing | 940-369-6115 | GAB, Room 535
Responsibilities: Application Support Services, Research Development, and Grant Collaborations
Liaison to: College of Engineering
Interests: GPU-enhanced parallel computations, network storage technologies, cloud big data, fast-interconnection networks, scientific algorithm optimization
Education
Ph.D., 2004, Computational Chemistry, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, La.
M.S., 1999, Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
B.S., 1996, Applied Chemistry and Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Vacant
Computational Scientist, High-Performance Computing | 940-565-3882 | GAB, Room 535
Responsibilities: Application Support Services, Research Development and Outreach, Grant Collaborations
Liaison to: College of Science
Di Wu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, CAAAM | Data Science and Analytics | GAB, Room 535
Responsibilities: Data Science and Analytics in Additive Manufacturing, HPC and Data Analytics support for Manufacturing Applications, Research Development and Grant Collaborations
Liaison to: UNT Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing
Interests: Machine Learning, Multi-scale Modeling, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence
Education
Ph.D., 2019, Mathematics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
B.B.A., 2008, Marketing, Shenyang University, Shenyang, China
NTSC Part-time Staff
Bailu Zhang
Graduate Student Research Assistant, High-Performance Computing | GAB, Room 535
Responsibilities: User support
Interests: Biocomputing, Data Science, Statistical Learning, Machine learning, R, Python, Matlab
Education
Doctoral student, (2024), Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
M.S., 2019, Mathematics, College of Science, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
B.S., 2015, Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.