Supporting Research Platforms & Portals
Marc Rousseau
Compute Canada
Marc Rousseau is Compute Canada’s Chief Software Architect. He has over 15 years of experience building IT infrastructure and software platforms for academic and commercial research teams. Marc’s foundation in both life science research and computer science allows him to bridge the knowledge gaps between researchers and software systems designers and operators. His involvement with Compute Canada started in 2008, as the lead system architect and technology manager for the CBRAIN neuroinformatics platform at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University. With CBRAIN, Marc helped develop several national and international research and cyberinfrastructure collaborations, making the platform an innovation leader in neuroinformatics. Since then, Marc has served on several national cyberinfrastructure committees with Compute Canada and CANARIE where he continues to share his enthusiasm and vision for advanced research platforms and cyberinfrastructure.
Brian Corrie
SFU/iReceptor
Brian Corrie is the Technical Lead on the iReceptor project. He has over twenty-five years experience in Advanced Research Computing, having played leadership roles at the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), in WestGrid/Compute Canada Visualization efforts, and at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences (IRMACS) at Simon Fraser University. His research interests focus around Technologies for Collaborative Science, Scientific Gateways, Scientific Visualization, and High Performance Computing.
Fiona Brinkman
Simon Fraser University
Fiona Brinkman is a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry and associate professor of computing sciences and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.Dr. Brinkman’s expertise in pathogen bioinformatics has led her to develop internationally leading computational tools for analyses of human and microbe responses to infection. Dr. Brinkman also runs other resources, such as InnateDB, a database and analysis platform that facilitates systems biology-based analyses of host responses to infection. She was one of the first to integrate pathogen genomic data with social network data to aid identification of the cause of an infectious disease outbreak. She has also used her expertise to aid metagenomics or genomics-based projects in agricultural and environmental research fields.Dr. Brinkman has been Director of Bioinformatics or Principle Investigator for multiple Genome Canada projects and is on the Scientific Advisory Boards for two US bioinformatics database initiatives. She has received multiple awards, including the Young Innovator award from the Innovation and Science Council of BC, the Canadian Society of Microbiologists Fisher Award, Canada’s Top 100 Women from the Women’s Executive Network, a TR100 award from MIT and most recently, was recognized for her publication record as one of Thomson Reuters “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014”.
James Colliander
PIMS
James Ellis Colliander is an American-Canadian mathematician. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia and serves as Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). PIMS is a consortium serving ten universities, with a mission to advance discovery, understanding and awareness of the mathematical sciences. Colliander is also the Founder/CEO of an education technology company called Crowdmark which builds tools for teachers and students including an online collaborative grading and analytics platform. James is also an award-winning teacher.
John Simpson
University of Alberta, Compute Canada
John is Compute Canada’s Digital Humanities Specialist. He has a diverse background in Philosophy and Computing and is an active contributor to the Digital Humanities as a Member-atLarge of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDHSCHN) Executive, a Programming Instructor with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), and as CoChair, Minimal Computing, with Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH). Prior to joining Compute Canada, John was involved in a research intensive postdoctoral fellowship focusing on developing semantic web expertise and prototyping tools capable of assisting academics in consuming and curating the new data made available by digital environments. He has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Alberta, and an MA in Philosophy and Hons. BA in Philosophy & Economics, with a specialization in International Trade, from the University of Waterloo. John’s focus as Compute Canada’s Digital Humanities Specialist is building programs for outreach, training, and support that will serve the Canadian digital humanities community in its diverse forms. In step with the construction of these programs is the ongoing development of Compute Canada’s ability to understand and respond to the needs of the Canadian digital humanities community. The principal body for carrying out this work is Compute Canada’s Digital Humanities Working Group, which John chairs.
Abstract
Research platforms and portals (RPPs) provide a Web-based gateway to data and functionality. The Compute Canada national platform for advanced research computing hosts over 50 RPPs, spanning all scientific disciplines and... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Marc Rousseau (Compute Canada)
- Brian Corrie (SFU/iReceptor)
- Fiona Brinkman (Simon Fraser University)
- James Colliander (PIMS)
- John Simpson (University of Alberta, Compute Canada)
Topic Area
Research Computing: Research Portals
Session
D2-S1-04 » Tuesday Session 1 - 4 (10:30 - Tuesday, 19th June, DAC Lower Floor)
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