Meet the Team

Directs Research Computing Services’ personnel, policies, programs and infrastructure; assists with proposal development and external relations; and coordinates the department’s engagement with locally-hosted, regional, federated, and cloud-enabled research computing resources and services.

Chief faculty liaison and primary architect for campus and regional research cyberinfrastructure; Campus point-of-contact for WestNet and NSF Big Data Innovation Hub; Plays a central role in faculty consultations to provide visualization expertise, and to ensure that all have access to the resources and services they need to succeed.

Works with Boise State researchers, postdocs and graduate students to provide expertise in parallel software development; leverage existing on- and off-campus CI resources to increase computational science; develop solutions for big data transfer, storage and retrieval; and advance education and broaden knowledge of CI resources through community engagement.

Interacts with stakeholders to understand computational and data storage needs to design and support a wide range of CI solutions. Serves as an XSEDE Campus Champion to help Boise State research faculty and students leverage the federated computational resources and services that are supported by the U.S. taxpayer investment.

Software integrator for RCS HPC resources, serving as Boise State liaison for the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) C3+3 collaboration in support of the Falcon supercomputer; provides training on a variety of software and CI services; Principal developer of VACUUMMS software package.

Provides training in the use of locally hosted, federated and cloud-enabled computational, software and storage CI solutions. Specialized in computational chemistry, materials science, and related applications; provides consultation services to Boise State researchers and students on data analytics and scientific visualization challenges.

Assists researchers with programming tasks including optimization, debugging, and creating software for specific tasks. Automates recurring/repetitive tasks using software or other tools. Adapts existing code or tools to better fit research goals. Assists with data access, modification, extraction and translation.

Supports researchers on campus by providing high performance computing services and coordinating for storage and movement of big data.

Ibrahim contributed to the NASA-funded SnowEx project with BSU Geoscientist HP Marshall using machine learning to predict hydrological outcomes of snowpack from remote sensing data. He currently works with BSU Assistant Professor Anne Hamby (Marketing) to analyze Kickstarter videos. Vocal characteristics of entrepreneurial presentations submitted to this crowd-funding platform, specifically pitch and loudness, create patterns that Alabi analyzes using B-Splines to determine which are most likely to be financially supported. He is also working toward a Software Carpentry trainer certification.

Evi contributed to the NASA-funded SnowEx project with BSU Geoscientist HP Marshall using machine learning to predict hydrological outcomes of snowpack from remote sensing data. He currently works with BSU Assistant Professor Anne Hamby (Marketing) to analyze Kickstarter videos. Vocal characteristics of entrepreneurial presentations submitted to this crowd-funding platform, specifically pitch and loudness, create patterns that Ofekeze analyzes using B-Splines to determine which are most likely to be financially supported. He is also working toward a Software Carpentry trainer certification.