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The Research Computing Series is a great opportunity to learn about research on campus as well as the computing resources available to faculty, staff and students. The Spring 2026 Research Computing Series consisted of two virtual sessions on Microsoft Teams.

• Jessica Niblo, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemistry
• Keisi Kacanja, Graduate Student, Physics

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Jessica Niblo, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemistry

Keisi Kacanja, Graduate Student, Physics

The Research Computing Series is a great opportunity to learn about the research on campus as well as the computing resources available to faculty, staff and students. The Fall 2025 Research Computing Series consists of two virtual sessions on Microsoft Teams.

Daniele Profeta is an Italian architect and designer. He is currently an assistant teaching professor and the director of the University’s architecture program in Florence, Italy. Daniele is a partner at A/P Practice, a collaborative partnership with Maya Alam. Their projects “combine everyday digital habits, contemporary imaging technologies and traditional craftsmanship to surpass an introverted conversation and open up novel forms of practice.”

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The Research Computing Series is a great opportunity to learn about the research on campus as well as the computing resources available to faculty, staff and students. The Spring 2025 Research Computing Series consists of two virtual sessions on Microsoft Teams.

This session features HTCondor representatives Christina Koch and Greg Thain from the Center for High Throughput Computing at the University of Wisconsin. Koch is a research computing facilitator who helps researchers scale up their computing on HTC resources and also contributes to various projects that support the development and deployment of high throughput technologies and infrastructure. Thain is a senior software engineer who has worked on the HTCondor HTC system since 2004. They covered topics such as how HTCondor implements HTC, the process for submitting your first batch jobs, and advanced Condor tricks you might not know.

This session features Sadjad Arzash, a postdoctoral researcher and theoretical physicist with a keen interest in understanding the emergent properties of biological tissues and biopolymer networks. Arzash’s postdoctoral research explores the mechanics of epithelial tissues through the lens of learning and adaptation, using theoretical and computational approaches. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech working with Prof. Shiladitya Banerjee. Previously, he was a postdoc in the Physics Department at Syracuse University from 2022-2025, working jointly with Prof. Lisa Manning (Syracuse) and Prof. Andrea Liu (UPenn). He earned his PhD from Rice University in 2021.

The Research Computing Series is a great opportunity to learn about the resources available to faculty, staff and students. The Fall 2024 Research Computing Series consisted of two virtual sessions on Microsoft Teams.

The Nov. 13 session (1:30-2:30 p.m.) featured Sarah Lucas, Assistant Professor, Biology. Lucas is a microbiologist who combines cutting-edge wet-lab and computational techniques to better understand how disruptions impact microbial community structure and function.

The Nov. 18 session (1:30-2:30 p.m.) featured Younes Ra’di, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Ra’di’s research is mainly focused on engineering fields and waves, with emphasis on tailoring electromagnetic wave-matter interactions.

This session was not recorded.

The Research Computing Series is a great opportunity to learn about the resources available to faculty, staff and students. The Spring 2024 Research Computing Series featured two sessions.

The April 10 session featured a presentation by Collin Capano, director of the Open Source Project Office (OSPO). Established in November 2023 with funding from a Sloan Foundation grant, the OSPO is dedicated to promoting open research initiatives and fostering open-source code development at Syracuse University. Capano’s presentation provides an overview of the OSPO’s purpose, current projects, and future objectives.

The April 17 session showcased insights from the ITS Research Computing team, focusing on recent enhancements to campus resources that are available to researchers across the research landscape. Topics included a discussion on the augmentation of compute capacities, refinements in documentation and a concise review of cluster resources. The session also featured spotlights on the HTC OrangeGrid cluster and the updated and highly anticipated new HPC Zest cluster, illustrating how these developments bolster the computational infrastructure available to the community.

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Collin Capano

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Research Computing Team

The Research Computing Series is a great opportunity to learn about the resources available to faculty, staff and students. The Fall 2023 Research Computing Series featured two sessions.

The first session shone a spotlight on postdoctoral research at Syracuse University. Physics postdoctoral research associate Raj Kumar Manna discussed how he leverages University computing resources in his research on self-organization in living matter and soft-matter systems. Currently, Manna’s work involves identifying biophysical mechanisms and quantifying forces that contribute to cell shape changes in a developing organ (Kupffer’s vesicle) of the zebrafish embryo.

The second session featured David Aja, a solutions engineer from Posit, a leading data science company providing support for R and other open-source and cloud-based products. Aja will share how researchers with varying levels of R experience can take advantage of Slurm and HTCondor clusters available to faculty and students engaged in academic research.

Do you need more computing power to move your research and creativity forward? At the Fall 2022 Research Computing Series, Assistant Professor of Biology Yasir Ahmed-Braimah and Social Science PhD Student Emmy Helander discussed how they leverage Syracuse University’s advanced computing resources to strengthen their work.