Meet Our Faculty and Staff
Research Computing and Data is comprised of full-time staff members who are dedicated to supporting faculty, students and staff at Clemson University. They have vast knowledge and background in high-performance computing, geospatial technologies, data storage, machine learning/artificial intelligence and more. The staff also regularly partners with faculty and graduate students for research initiatives and projects.
Leadership
Jill Gemmill
Associate Vice President
gemmill@clemson.edu
Staff
Miika Nevalainen
Program Manager
mnevala@clemson.edu
Advanced Computing and Data Services (ACDS)
Nate Clement
CUI Research Computing Facilitator
ncleme2@clemson.edu
Zachary Gerstner
Research Computing Facilitator
zigerst@clemson.edu
Matt Moersen
Interim Director of ACDS
mpmoers@clemson.edu
Zhenzhen Zhang
Research Computing Facilitator
zhenzhz@clemson.edu
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
Carl Ehrett
Director of AI/ML
cehrett@clemson.edu
Cloud and Software Services (CSS)
Doug Dawson
Director of CSS
dndawso@clemson.edu
Ben Godfrey
Senior Research and Cloud Computing Engineer
bfgodfr@clemson.edu
Sai Vinay Nandigam
Senior Research and Cloud Computing Engineer
snandig@clemson.edu
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Patricia Carbajales-Dale
Executive Director of GIS
pcarbaj@clemson.edu
Patrick Claflin
GIS System Administrator
pat@clemson.edu
Jared Gingrich
GIS and Drone Mapping Specialist
gingric@clemson.edu
Gakumin Kato
GIS Manager
gkato@clemson.edu
Grisha Post
GIS Analyst
gcpost@clemson.edu
Infrastructure (RCDI)
Scott Groel
Executive Director of Infrastructure
sgroel@clemson.edu
Eric Holmi
CUI HPC Systems Administrator
eholmi@clemson.edu
Zach Jordan
System Administrator
wzjorda@clemson.edu
Becky Ligon
Storage Architect
ligon@clemson.edu
Moises Martinez
Systems Engineer
moisesm@clemson.edu
Jerome McClendon
Computer Systems Engineer for CUI and CMMC
jmcclen@clemson.edu
Nicholas Rengier
Systems Architect
nrengie@clemson.edu
