GOOD 2026

Andrej Čermák is a Cloud Engineer at CESNET, where he works in the Cloud team working on bridging standard OpenStack cloud with Open OnDemand portal. He earned a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Masaryk University, writing a master’s thesis that delivered the proof‑of‑concept implementation of the OpenStack extension in Open OnDemand, which is now running in production environment. When he isn’t automating cloud workflows, Andrej enjoys working out and exploring science‑fiction novels.

Boyd Wilson, CEO/CTO of Omnibond, formerly, Boyd served as Software CTO and also Executive Director over computing facilities and operations at Clemson University

Boyd has extensive experience and leadership in the areas of software development, advanced computing infrastructure, security & identity, and transportation AI analytics. He has worked in development management for products sold by Novell, StorageTek, Sun, Oracle, Opentext, and Omnibond.

Sr. HPC Specialist at Research Technology, TTS

Dori Sajdak is the Assistant Director of User Services at the University at Buffalo, Center for Computational Research.

Emily Moffat Sadeghi is the developer relations program manager for Open OnDemand at the Ohio Supercomputer Center where she leads Open OnDemand's development priorities and collaborations within the HPC community. Previously, she worked at The Ohio State University and holds a bachelor's degree in Hispanic Linguistics. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, staying active, and exploring vintage shops.

Greg Nawrocki is the Director of Customer Engagement of the Globus Department at the University of Chicago. He is responsible for ensuring subscribers are getting the most value from Globus by promoting user adoption.

His experience includes building controls and diagnostics for high energy physics experiments, software development in the television and consumer products industry, working with the Globus Toolkit in the early days of Grid Computing, and as the technical lead for a data analytics company he co-founded.

Greg holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Harshit Soora is a Master’s student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He works as a Graduate Research Assistant under Prof. Alan Sussman, collaborating closely with the Ohio Supercomputing Center as part of their core developer team. Before joining UMD, he spent over three years at NVIDIA, specializing in cloud computing and scaling AI models. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Heechang Na, Ph.D., is the Scientific Applications Operations Manager at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). In his role, he is responsible for managing the comprehensive operations for providing optimal scientific software application environments to academic and industry clients. Leveraging his technical expertise and strategic insights, he drives the enhancement of OSC's scientific computing infrastructure.

As part of his responsibilities, he oversees the deployment of the scientific software stack on new systems and collaborates with other groups to make the software environment more accessible. This includes deploying more Open OnDemand apps, supporting classrooms and enabling new workflows in AI, bioinformatics and other domains.

Jason is an active open source contributor and software engineer focused on Ubuntu and High-Performance Computing. By day he works as the software engineering lead for the HPC team inside of Canonical's Cloud Engineering organization, and by night he serves as the leader of the Ubuntu High-Performance Computing community team. Together, they work on Charmed HPC, and new open source project from the Ubuntu community that's goal is to standardize the set up and lifecycle management of Slurm-based HPC clusters on Ubuntu.

As part of his position in the Ubuntu community, Jason likes to experiment with existing HPC technologies such as Open OnDemand and Slurm, and make them accessible to HPC newcomers using "micro hpc" clusters on their laptops.

Kyle M. Monahan is Manager of Data Science Services in Research Technology at Tufts University, where he manages a team supporting advanced analytics, visualization, bioinformatics, LLMs, and secure environments for regulated data. A passionate advocate for HPC adoption and resource optimization, Kyle is also a Lecturer in Data Science at Tufts Gordon Institute. He has delivered many workshops, courses, and co-designed academic programs. Committed to making data science accessible, Kyle continues to support research and education across Tufts.

Kyriakos is dedicated to supporting faculty, staff, and students in their computational research by developing and supporting computing resources for high-performance and high-throughput computing. With a background in data science and DevOps engineering, he focuses on optimizing IT operations through automation, collaboration, and continuous learning, all while simplifying complex processes.

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I am an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Purdue University and a student scientific applications assistant working on HPC dashboards at the Purdue Rosen Center for Advanced Computing.

Robert Henschel is the HPC and Public Sector lead at Cendio AB, the Swedish company producing the ThinLinc Linux terminal server software. He has more than 20 years of experience in High Performance Computing. Henschel also holds a part time position at Indiana University, where he works with research groups to take advantage of the HPC computing and storage solutions provided by the university.

Developing the Open OnDemand instances at CSC, consisting of Open OnDemand for the national systems Puhti, Mahti and Roihu, the EuroHPC system LUMI, and Open OnDemand in the EuroHPC Federation Platform.

Sahil Vartak is a Master's student in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University specializing in full-stack development and AI integration. As Lead Web Developer at Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing, he builds and maintains production software serving over 1,000 researchers daily. His work spans modern web applications, backend services, and machine learning pipelines. Previously, he developed ML-driven analytics dashboards at McDermott International and contributed to AI research published in PerCom 2025. Sahil is passionate about building reliable, scalable software and leveraging AI tools to accelerate development.

Sean Anderson has a Ph.D. in Physics (Optical Science) and has over 13 years of experience in research- and high-performance computing. He joined the WFU HPC team in January 2020. His main initiatives are on increasing user access to HPC resources via Open OnDemand, and maintaining and deploying research software.

For nearly 25 years, I have dedicated myself to empowering researchers and advancing science across a multitude of scientific domains via HPC. From system design and tuning to building custom applications, I enable complex simulations and data analysis that unlock new frontiers. My work currently focuses on application gateways using OOD to bridge the gap between infrastructure and cancer research. I specialize in democratizing access for heterogeneous user bases—from AI engineers needing reproducibility to oncologists requiring visualization. This robust architecture enables critical "bench-to-bedside" workflows where patient-facing clinicians leverage HPC, ensuring that technical barriers never impede scientific discovery.

Research Technology Intern at Tufts Technology Services. Interested in open source software development and also mechanical engineering!

Xavier Pillons — Principal Technical Program Manager, Microsoft (Azure HPC). 20+ years in HPC. Focused on Azure CycleCloud, Slurm, Open OnDemand, and developer productivity.
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