Robert Ping Email & Phone Number

In 2024, he accepted program management responsibilities for Jetstream2 and the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium where he will facilitate the success of the programs.As RDA-US Program Manager, he oversees the multiple projects within RDA-US including the TIGRUS Facilitation Program, outreach, communications, day-to-day activities, and funding initiatives. He makes sure initial ideas are disseminated, external and internal working group communications happen in a timely fashion, and outputs are disseminated to stakeholders and the community. As program facilitator he engages with partners, manages facilitation and in-kind support, and manages finalization support of working groups.After moderating CENTRA 6, he was invited to join the Operations Committee for CENTRA, Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications, a partnership and evolving framework for collaborations amongst research centers, institutes and laboratories across the world. The Operations Committee will ensure annual meetings run smoothly and help grow the planning and community efforts of CENTRA.For University Information Technology Services: Research Technologies he organizes training (Supercomputing for Everyone Series) for ten+ workshops per year to help IU faculty, staff, and students use advanced cyberinfrastructure. He organizes activities to build community and sustain funding for the University and its initiatives. He manages news items, web presence, YouTube channels, and email communications via Sales Force for both RT and PTI.Since 2013, he has organized or co-organized LUG17, ParCFD2018, CAAV19, HUF19, CENTRA 6 - '23, and CENTRA 7 - '24. He encouraged youth to pursue careers in STEM by hosting activities and workshops to spark their interest and ignite their imagination. As project manager for Prof. Beth Plale from 2008-2013 he helped launch initiatives like HTRC, D2I, SEAD, and the RDA. He co-organized the RDA Planning Meeting, the NSF-sponsored Data2012, and the HTRC Uncamp in 2012, and PRAGMA27 and the NSF-sponsored SI2: SSE & SSI PI Workshop in 2014.As project manager for TeraGrid, an e-Science grid computing infrastructure combining resources at eleven partner sites, he was involved with organizing and traveling to trade-shows around the US to promote the work sponsored by the NSF and encouraging K-12 students to enter the Science Engineering Technology Math workforce pipeline. He was also involved with the follow-on project: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).

Listed skills include Public Speaking, Event Planning, Community Outreach, Social Media, and 13 others.

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  Indiana University Bloomington

  Education: Tourism Management/Event Planning, Music