Dr. Snapp-Childs is a distinguished leader in the national cyberinfrastructure community, currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Indiana University’s Pervasive Technology Institute and Director of Research Partnerships for UITS Research Technologies. She provides leadership for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) Operations and Jetstream2, the NSF’s premier cloud-based CI resource designed specifically to lower barriers to entry for researchers and educators. She is also the Principal Investigator for the Midwest Research Computing and Data (RCD) Consortium.

Managing a diverse portfolio of CI projects that bridge the gap between high-performance hardware and end-user accessibility, Dr. Snapp-Childs ensures that Indiana remains at the forefront of local and national CI conversations. She has a proven track record of fostering collaboration across Indiana’s regional campuses and partner institutions (Purdue University, University of Notre Dame) and contributes regularly to the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC).

Snapp-Childs previously served as manager of the collaboration and engagement support group in UITS Research Technologies where she headed up proposal development and project management for multi-institutional research projects, organized international workshops on supercomputing topics, and developed various education programs and projects.