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Director

Thom H. Dunning, Jr.

Thom Dunning is the director of the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He also holds an endowed position as Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence in Chemistry and professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. full bio
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email: tdunning
phone: 217.244.0078
office: 4100 NCSA

Executive Director

Danny Powell

Danny Powell manages the day-to-day operations of the center and works to link NCSA staff and programs with the TeraGrid and NCSA's Private Sector Program. He also acts as NCSA's liaison with the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation, and the state of Illinois.
email: danny
phone: 217.244.0633
office: 4100B NCSA

Deputy Director

Rob Pennington

Rob Pennington oversees the activities in all of NCSA's directorates to ensure that the scientists and engineers using NCSA's resources and services see a unified, seamless environment that brings the most advanced technologies to bear on their problems. He is also responsible for coordinating major campus- and region-wide efforts to build an integrated cyberinfrastructure and he continues to lead the center's Innovative Systems Laboratory.
email: robp
phone: 217.244.1052
office: 4102E NCSA