Presenter

Derek Simmel's career in Cybersecurity and HPC spans over four decades. Derek has worked at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) since 2001. Derek is a co-PI for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) ACCESS COre National Ecosystem for CyberinfrasTructure (CONECT) project, and co-leads Cybersecurity Operations for ACCESS. Derek also provides infrastructure design, cybersecurity and scientific workflow support for PSC's NSF-funded Bridges-2 system, and NIH-funded Brain Image Library, HuBMAP and SenNet projects. Derek has served on the Technical Steering Committee for the Linux Foundation OpenHPC project since 2016, and on the Governing Board for OpenHPC since 2019.