Ben Bowen

Application Lead: In the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division of Berkeley Lab, Ben is the Applications Lead for OpenMSI. He has over 10 years experience in mass spectrometry and quantitative analysis. With a background in chemical engineering and a biophysics PhD in multiparameter imaging of single-molecule fluorescence he has gone on to establish new paradigms in proteomics, metabolomics, and imaging.

Leading OpenMSI is a long-standing vision of Ben's where the power of web-based technologies allows the most advanced analysis, management, and visualization of one of the most promising technical approaches emerging into the biological laboratories.

Oliver Rübel

Computing Lead: Oliver is a research scientist of Berkeley Lab's Data Analytics and Visualization Group and a member of the NERSC Analytics team. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2009 from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research has focused on high-performance data analysis and visualization, machine learning, and query-driven visualization of multi-dimensional scientific data. During his career, Oliver has worked closely with applications ranging from high-energy physics, climate science, to biological sciences. He has contributed to the development of many visualization and analysis codes and has been a main developer of PointCloudXplore . With OpenMSI he continues his journey to make complex data accessible to application sciences. For more information about Oliver see here

Curt Fischer

Senior Developer: Curt studied chemical engineering as an undergrad at Case Western Reserve University and as a Ph.D. student at MIT. His doctoral thesis, explored experimental approaches to optimizing metabolic pathways for microbial hydrocarbon and biofuel production. From 2009 to 2010 he was a post-doctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, where he studied natural microbial communities using a combination of -omics approaches. From 2011-2014, he worked as a Biological Engineer at startup company Ginkgo Bioworks, where he led projects enabling bacteria to convert CO2 to fuels, helped expand the company's organism testing and characterization pipeline, and translated client needs into biological specifications. In 2015 he joined the OpenMSI team.

Annette M. Greiner

Senior Developer: Annette Greiner is a user interface designer and web developer with particular interest in interaction design and visualization. She recently earned a Master's in Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley's School of Information, with a focus on human-computer interaction. Before returning to school, she developed web sites for the Advanced Light Source and the DOE Joint Genome Institute. At NERSC, she designs and develops science gateways. Annette holds a B.S. in biomedical science and theater from the University of Michigan.

Shreyas Cholia

Senior Developer: Shreyas Cholia works on science gateway, web and grid technologies for NERSC, with the goal of making high-performance and distributed computing more transparent and accessible. He has also been involved in various grid and data-driven science efforts at NERSC since 2002. Prior to his appointment at NERSC, Shreyas was a developer and consultant at IBM. He has a bachelor's degree from Rice University, where he double majored in Computer Science and Cognitive Sciences.

Katherine Yelick

Katherine Yelick is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley and is also the Associate Laboratory Director of Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Gary Karpen

Gary Karpen is an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley and is also the Division Director of the Life Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Trent Northen

Trent Northen is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and lead of the Molecular Cartography Project at LBNL.

David Skinner

David Skinner is Group Lead of the Outreach, Software and Programming Group at the National Energy Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).

Wes Bethel

Wes Bethel is the Group Lead of the Visualization Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Ken Joy

Ken Joy is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California at Davis. He is the Director of the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV) at UC Davis.