Alan Sill (Texas Tech University)

Dr. Alan Sill leads the development team for the Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) at Texas Tech University and has been one of the primary organizers state-wide for the development team for TIGRE. He has coordinated large-scale development projects for grid and distributed computing for the past decade, including database and distributed data access for high energy physics experiments and coordinating creation of large-scale, multi-Teraflop systems for computation for such experiments. He was involved in the early stages of the formation of the Open Science Grid and TIGRE and in distributed computing for the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Dr. Sill came to Texas Tech in 1992 as Assistant Professor of Physics, and has held a series of positions in the Physics Department up through Research Professor before joining the TTU High Performance Computing Center in 2005 as TIGRE Senior Scientist. His research experience in scientific computing covers approximately three decades and spans a range of topics in particle and nuclear physics, astrophysics and radiochemical analysis. He earned his Bachelors degree from Lewis and Clark College in Physics and Mathematics in 1977 and his Ph.D in Particle Physics from The American University in 1987 after a short period in industry. Dr. Sill serves on a variety of international standards bodies, including working groups on grid security, middleware development, authentication and authorization, and videoconferencing and is currently Secretary of The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority, the accrediting arm of the International Grid Trust Federation for North, South and Central America. He is an author on over 300 publications spanning computational development, particle physics, nuclear physics, radiochemical analysis and cosmic ray physics.