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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: page |
| 3 | +authors: ["Trevor Keller"] |
| 4 | +teaser: "Congratulations to the 2025 Steering Committee" |
| 5 | +title: "HPC Carpentry Elections: 2025" |
| 6 | +date: 2025-07-01 |
| 7 | +time: "12:00:00" |
| 8 | +tags: ["HPC Carpentry", "Elections"] |
| 9 | +--- |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +[Democratic elections for the HPC Carpentry Steering Committee successfully |
| 12 | +completed on 1 July 2025, with 10 ballots cast]( |
| 13 | +https://secure.electionbuddy.com/results/ZWYKK574NT5Z). |
| 14 | +The Steering Committee members are: |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +## Alan O'Cais |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +Currently the technical manager of MultiXscale, an EuroHPC centre of |
| 19 | +Excellence. Previously acted as the Software Manager of E-CAM, an EU Centre |
| 20 | +of Excellence in computing applications, while at Juelich Supercomputing |
| 21 | +Centre (JSC). Also previously managed the user software and application |
| 22 | +environment on the multi-PFlop JURECA hybrid cluster system at JSC. Between |
| 23 | +2010 and 2015, was primarily focused within the LinkSCEEM-2 project helping |
| 24 | +to develop a Virtual Research Community in Computational Science in the |
| 25 | +Eastern Mediterranean region. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +Maintainer of EasyBuild and EESSI, contributor to a number of open source |
| 28 | +projects (in particular Magic Castle, which is relevant for HPC Carpentry). |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +## Annajiat Alim Rasel |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +Annajiat serves as a senior lecturer and coordinator of undergraduate |
| 33 | +programs at Computer Science and Engineering within the School of Data and |
| 34 | +Sciences, the largest school at BRAC University (BRACU), Bangladesh, under |
| 35 | +the umbrella of the world’s largest NGO, BRAC. He is continuously learning |
| 36 | +from the students and colleagues. He is grateful for having co-taught courses |
| 37 | +on problem-solving, parallel, distributed, and high-performance computing |
| 38 | +(HPC), natural language interfaces and processing, data science, modeling and |
| 39 | +simulation, machine vision, ethical hacking, etc., along with |
| 40 | +interdisciplinary workshops, training events, being a coach for APAC HPC-AI |
| 41 | +Competition, ACM ICPC, etc. With kind contributions by HPC Carpentry |
| 42 | +community members like Alan O'Cais (multiXscale & CECAM), Benson Muite |
| 43 | +(Kichakato Kizito), Wirawan Purwanto (ODU), M. Abdur Rahman (BRACU), |
| 44 | +Md. Intekhabul Hafiz (BRACU), and many others, he was able to co-teach the |
| 45 | +HPC-related pilot workshops that had a profound impact on inspiring and |
| 46 | +assisting underrepresented and underserved researchers and learners. The |
| 47 | +Carpentries community has been a source of immense growth for him. He is |
| 48 | +thankful to have had the opportunity to learn from everyone while serving the |
| 49 | +global community. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +He has served as an instructor, instructor trainer, mentor, curriculum |
| 52 | +advisor, member of the executive council (EC, now transitioned into the board |
| 53 | +of directors), instructor trainers leadership committee, code of conduct |
| 54 | +committee (CoCc), instructor development committee, steering committee for |
| 55 | +HPC carpentry curriculum development, organizing committee for CarpentryCon, |
| 56 | +etc. Having joined the CoCc in 2022 and then the EC, he had the opportunity |
| 57 | +to serve both groups as an EC liaison to the CoCc during 2022–2023. He |
| 58 | +returned as a CoCc member in 2024 to continue the commitment of fostering a |
| 59 | +safe and inclusive learning environment. Looking ahead, he is passionate |
| 60 | +about bridging the digital divide, particularly through ICT4D, with a focus |
| 61 | +on ICT4ED. He believes in the power of open science, open educational |
| 62 | +resources, free/libre open-source software, tools, and good practices for |
| 63 | +research, development, engineering, and education. This includes promoting |
| 64 | +diversity, democracy, transparency, localization, accessibility, and other |
| 65 | +aspects of FAIR and CARE principles. Together, he dreams to ensure a safer |
| 66 | +community of practice, empower the community members, and build a larger |
| 67 | +Carpentries community in Bangladesh, Asia, and worldwide. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +## Andrew Reid |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +I operate a small HPC cluster at NIST, and my ulterior motive for all of this |
| 72 | +is getting better users for my cluster and others. I feel very strongly that |
| 73 | +the wider availability of HPC resources has not been matched by a greater |
| 74 | +understanding of how to use them, and that this is an important skills gap in |
| 75 | +many fields, and might be most acute for small research teams or |
| 76 | +informally-assembled clusters, although this is hard to measure. I'm a huge |
| 77 | +fan of the open-source continuous-improvement model of the Carpentries |
| 78 | +broadly, and look forward to bringing that spirit to the HPC world. |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +## Trevor Keller |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +I assist Andrew with a research cluster and data storage at NIST, and have a |
| 83 | +strong interest in helping scientists overcome barriers to using HPC |
| 84 | +resources. I have served on the HPC Carpentry Steering Committee since its |
| 85 | +inception, and enjoy preparing massive PRs to implement sweeping changes to our |
| 86 | +lessons. I am excited for the Lesson Program Incubation process to advance, and |
| 87 | +look forward to incorporating more workshop feedback to improve our offerings. |
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