Presenter

Melissa Cragin is Chief Strategist for Data Initiatives in the Research Data Services division at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). She is a TrustedCI Fellow in the 2022 cohort. Prior to joining SDSC, Melissa was the Executive Director of the Midwest Big Data Hub, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Melissa maintains appointments at UIUC, as Center Affiliate with NCSA, and research Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at UIUC.