DiRAC is creating an environment where scientists can harness interdisciplinary expertise to solve some of the most difficult questions facing Astronomy today. It provides an interaction space between Astrophysics, Computer Science, Statistics, and other disciplines. It is a place where ideas across many disciplines come together and mature; a laboratory for devising new ways of extracting knowledge from complex systems by bridging disciplines and developing a fundamentally new way of science through computation.
Leadership
James R. A. Davenport
Incoming Director, DiRAC
Faculty Director of Outreach, Astronomy
Research Assistant Professor
Researchers
Colin Orion Chandler
Project Scientist for the LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing (LINCC) Frameworks project
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Postdocs
Graduate Students
Affiliates
Bryce Kalmbach
Project Scientist at SLAC working on Commissioning for Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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Alumni
Siegfried Eggl
The Grainger College of Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor
Maria Patterson
White House Presidential Innovation Fellow
Entrepreneur-in-Residence to the
U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy
Advisory Board
Ron Marquardt
Board Chair
Vice President of Advanced Technologies & Innovation, T-Mobile
