Stanley C Ahalt

Projects

• BioData Catalyst Coordinating Center (BDC3)
• Conference on Data Science and Law
• Open Storage Network (OSN)
• BDC3: The Cloud IC Interoperability Framework (CICI)
• AIxB: Building a collaborative ecosystem for innovation in Artificial Intelligence and the Biological Sciences
• UNC Superfund Research Program - Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC)
• BDC3: COVID-19 Data and Infrastructure Research
• BDC3: Fellows Program
• Data Commons
• NC TraCS
• South Big Data Hub (SBDH)

Collaborations

• NIH HEAL Data Stewardship Group
• BioData Catalyst Coordinating Center
• NCATS Biomedical Data Translator
• RADx Data Hub
• South Big Data Hub

Dr. Stan Ahalt is the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC-Chapel Hill. As Director, he leads a team of research scientists, software and network engineers, data science specialists, and visualization experts who work closely with faculty research teams at UNC, Duke, and NC State as well as with partners across the country. Dr. Ahalt is also a Professor in the UNC Computer Science Department and the Associate Director of Informatics and Data Science (IDSci) in the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS), UNC’s CTSA program; in this role, Dr. Ahalt leverages the expertise and resources of RENCI to foster clinical and translational research across the UNC campus. He came to RENCI in 2009 from Ohio, where he served as executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) from 2003-2009 and as a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at The Ohio State University for 22 years. Dr. Ahalt launched several model programs at OSC, including Blue Collar Computing, a national program to bring high performance computing to a wide spectrum of industries and applications, and OSCnet, a leading high-speed research network for K-12 schools, higher education and economic development. He also served as co-chair of the Ohio Broadband Council, the coordinating body for the state’s initiative to extend the reach of the Broadband Ohio Network. Dr. Ahalt earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clemson University and has over 30 years of experience in data science, signal and image processing, and pattern recognition/ML.