Daniel S. Katz: Projects

Current

Sustainable and open science, focusing on software
- Assistant Director for Scientific Software & Applications, NCSA
- Credit, citation, and attribution:
  - FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group, co-chair
  - RDA FORCE11 ReSA Fair for Research Software (FAIR4RS) working group, co-chair
    - FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles) (RDA, 2022)
    - Introducing the FAIR Principles for research software (Scientific Data, 2022)
  - RDA FAIR for Machine Learning (FAIR4ML) interest group, co-chair
    - Working Towards Understanding the Role of FAIR for Machine Learning (DaMaLOS, 2021)
  - Transitive Credit as a Means to Address Social and Technological Concerns Stemming from Citation and Attribution of Digital Products (JORS, 2014)
  - Implementing Transitive Credit with JSON-LD (WSSSPE2, 2014)
- The US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE), co-founder, steering committee member
  - D. S. Katz, K. McHenry, J. S. Lee, "Research Software Sustainability: Lessons Learned at NCSA," 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 7249-7256, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71494
  - J. Cohen, D. S. Katz, M. Barker, N. Chue Hong, R. Haines, C. Jay, "The Four Pillars of Research Software Engineering," IEEE Software, 2020. 10.1109/MS.2020.2973362 (Preprint: arXiv:2002.01035 [cs.SE])
  - D. S. Katz, K. McHenry, C. Reinking, R. Haines, "Research Software Development & Management in Universities: Case Studies from Manchester's RSDS Group, Illinois' NCSA, and Notre Dame's CRC," Intl. Work. on Soft. Eng. for Science (SE4Science), 2019. 10.1109/SE4Science.2019.00009 (preprint: arXiv:1903.00732)
- Research Software Alliance (ReSA), co-founder, steering committee chair
- WSSSSPE, co-founder
- URSSI: Conceptualizing a US Research Software Sustainability Institute, co-PI
- IRIS-HEP: Institute for Research and Innovation in Software in High Energy Physics
- Geospatial Software Institute SI2-S2I2 Conceptualization, co-PI
- SCiMMA: Community planning for Scalable Cyberinfrastructure to support Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
- FAIR Framework for Physics-Inspired Artificial Intelligence in High Energy Physics, co-PI
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): INCLUSION (Incubating a New Community of Leaders Using Software, Inclusion, Innovation, Interdisciplinary and Open-Science), PI
Cyberinfrastructure
- Nanomanufacturing (nanoMFG) node in the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN)
- SCAILFIN: Scalable CyberInfrastructure for Artificial Intelligence and Likelihood Free Inference, co-PI
- bbThemis, software for sharing burst buffers, co-PI
Distributed and many task computing: Parsl and funcX
- funcX: Federated function-as-a-service, co-PI
  - funcX: Distributed and High Performance Function as a Service for Science (IEEE TPDS, 2022)
  - Federated Function as a Service for eScience (eScience, 2021)
- Center for Exascale-enabled Scramjet Design (CEESD)
- Parsl, co-PI
  - Parsl: Pervasive Parallel Programming in Python (HPDC 2019)
  - Scalable Parallel Programming in Python with Parsl (PEARC 2019)
- Swift: A language for distributed parallel scripting (Parallel Computing, 2011)
- MTC Envelope: Defining the Capability of Large Scale Computers in the Context of Parallel Scripting Applications (SC13)
- Design and Evaluation of the GeMTC Framework for GPU-enabled Many-Task Computing (HPDC 2014)
also see here for additional research, organizing, and editing activities

Past

NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase: Towards a FAIR Digital Ecosystem in the Cloud
NSF Program Director (2012-1016), Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) and Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) [now Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)], leading Software Cluster
- Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) Program, including SSE and SSI, and S2I2,
- Computational and Data-enabled Science & Engineering (CDS&E)
- Dear Colleague Letter - Supporting Scientific Discovery through Norms and Practices for Software and Data Citation and Attribution
AIMES: Abstractions and Integrated Middleware for Extreme Scales, co-PI, leading applications and integration
- Application Skeleton: Generating Synthetic Applications for Infrastructure Research (JOSS, 2016)
- Application skeletons: Construction and use in eScience (FGCS, 2016)
- Using Application Skeletons to Improve eScience Infrastructure (eScience 2014)
Social computing
- A Social Content Delivery Network for Scientific Cooperation: Vision, Design, and Architecture (DataCloud 2012)
- Constructing a Social Content Delivery Network for eScience (eScience 2013)
- On Replica Placement in a Social CDN for e-Science (eScience 2014)
ExM, co-PI, leading UC middleware and applications
Center for Multiscale Theory and Simulation (an NSF Chemistry Division-supported Center), developing cyberinfrastructure
ExTENCI, co-PI, leading Workflow & Client Tools development
Beagle, coordinating catalysts
Open Grid Forum, Area Co-director for Applications
XSEDE Campus Champion for University of Chicago
TeraGrid, GIG Director of Science
Blue Waters, application workshops, many-task computing requirements, PRAC outreach and guidance
e-Science Institute Research Theme: Dynamic Distributed Data-intensive Programming Abstractions and Systems (3DPAS), S. Jha, D. S. Katz, A. Luckow, N. Chue Hong, O. Rana, Y. Simmhan, "Introducing Distributed Dynamic Data-intensive (D3) Science: Understanding Applications and Infrastructure," Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), page e4032, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.4032
e-Science Institute Research Theme: Distributed Programming Abstractions, S. Jha, M. Cole, D. S. Katz, M. Parashar, O. Rana, J. Weissman, "Distributed computing practice for large-scale science and engineering applications," Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), V.25(11), 2013. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.2897
e-Science Institute Research Theme: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users, book chapter: Daniel S. Katz, G. Bruce Berriman, Robert G. Mann, Collaborative Astronomical Image Mosaics
Montage, member of original development team, author of MPI version
Remote Exploration and Experimentation Project, application manager, including work in resilience
- Software-Implemented Fault Detection for High-Performance Space Applications (DSN 2000)
- Fault-Tolerant High-Performance Matrix Multiplication: Theory and Practice (DSN 2001)
- Tests and Tolerances for High-Performance Software-Implemented Fault Detection (Transactions on Computing, 2003)
- Application-Level Fault Tolerance and Detection in the Orbital Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (PRDC 2004)
MODtool, a tool for integrated design and simulation for millimeter-wave antenna systems: IEEE Aerospace paper