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2025-09-25 ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee - Fall 2025

2025-09-25 ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee - Fall 2025

ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee Fall Meeting

Attendance

  • Committee Attendees: Abhishek Srivastava, Aniruddha Maiti, Badri Narayanan, Changqing Cheng, Deepak Kumar, Dhara Trivedi, Dibakar Datta, Donald Krieger, Gavin Fitzgerald, George Ostrouchov, Jack Skinner, Kresimir Rupnik, Kristen Fichthorn, Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Mohamed Abouelkhair, Pariksheet Nanda, Peter Couvares, Petr Krysl, Rajamani Narayanan, Roman Gerasimov, Sameer Sameer, Shaoming Cheng, Surl-Hee (Shirley) Ahn, Tae Kim, Thai Le, Ulf Schiller, Vasiliy Znamenskiy, Vojtech Vlcek, Wayne Smith, Wei Yang, Wenbin Zhang, William Lai

    • Regrets: A. Murat Maga, Chang Liu, Gerasimov Roman, James E Chapman, Kyle Godbey, Mahsa Dabaghmeshin, Parisa Khodabakhshi, Stefano Iacus, Steven Cutchin, Yunji Zhang

  • ACCESS Attendees: Laura Herriott (Allocations), Tom Furlani (Metrics), Amitava Majumdar (ACO), Dave Wheeler (Operations), Alana Romanella (Support), Jason Armbruster (Support), Cassian McClenny (Support), Andrew Pasquale (Support) and Cindy Wong, Eric Adams (RP Forum)

  • NSF Attendees: Sharon Geva and Edward Walker

Presentation Guidance

  1. Each agenda topic will require a champion or representative to present and take feedback or recommendations back for consideration

  2. These meetings are community-run and community-built, so please be prepared to 1) share information ahead of time 2) seek feedback during your topic 3) arrange for someone to take notes on your behalf 4) enter all topics into the ACCESS spreadsheet

Agenda - Subject to change

Time (CT)

Topic

Time (CT)

Topic

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM (10 mins)

Welcome & Introductions

Meeting slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z5RCKuXex1gxt3a6knrnoGug6XVLW_aQ/edit?slide=id.g2fc99728a46_1_63#slide=id.g2fc99728a46_1_63

Meeting notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PuRc2iyNIfysPA_4JTxNXmUDtPPuDdir61EFbweeKv0/edit?tab=t.0

2:10 PM - 2:20 PM (10 mins)

Logistics & Charter

2:20 PM - 2:25 PM (5 mins)

Nomination of Chair – Ulf Schiller

2:25 PM - 2:30 PM (5 mins)

Nomination of ACCESS External Advisory Board representative – William Lai

  • Submission of report from previous EAB rep, William Lai:

  • Key Points Discussed:

    • Identity of ACCESS: Work underway to clarify “What is ACCESS” and “Who is ACCESS” (primarily defining Resource Providers and their role). Questions about whether an RP should join ACCESS or PATH were raised.

    • NSF’s Use of ACCESS Model: NSF programs (e.g., NAIRR) appear to be adopting frameworks inspired by ACCESS (i.e., XRAS), though formal connections remain unclear. New NSF RFP related to NAIRR is potentially related to ACCESS future.

    • User Segmentation: Ongoing discussion about defining user groups (novice, intermediate, advanced, disciplinary communities). Personas exist, but refinement is needed.

    • Tracking & Coordination: Emphasis on using JIRA/milestones for goal-setting and progress tracking across teams. Metrics improve every year.

  • Next Steps:

    • Continue reviewing NSF’s 8 recommendations and determine responses.

2:30 PM - 2:35 PM (5 mins)

Welcome Remarks from NSF ACCESS Cognizant Program Officer, Dr. Sharon Broude Geva

2:35 PM - 2:45 PM (10 mins)

Overview of ACCESS
3 - ACCESS Teams

2:45 PM - 3:25 PM (40 mins)

ACCESS Support: Model Context Protocol (MCP) discussion - Andrew Pasquale
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VvYgAeZF4hZ7HEy0vVKjt4tptr2Xvqod6-wKMluwYLk/

  • Discussion focused on additional data integration opportunities. Specific information may be found on the meeting notes page linked above.

3:25 PM - 3:30 PM (5 mins)

Review of next steps

  • Action recap

  • Committee request for future topics:

    • ACCESS Support coordination of user training

    • ACCESS and NAIRR and next steps

  • Next meeting Spring 2026

  • Adjourn

Meeting Logistics