2026-02-12 ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee - Spring 2026

2026-02-12 ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee - Spring 2026

ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee Spring Meeting

  • Date: Thursday, Feb 12, 2026

  • Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PT / 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm CT / 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm pm ET

  • Location: Zoom

Attendance

  • Chair: Ulf Schiller

  • Committee Attendees: Abhishek Srivastava, Aniruddha Maiti, Badri Narayanan, Chang Liu, Changqing Cheng, Dhara Trivedi, Dibakar Datta, Donald Krieger, Gavin Fitzgerald, George Ostrouchov, Jack Skinner, James Chapman, Kristen Fichthorn, Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Kyle Godbey, Mahsa Dabaghmeshin, Mohamed Abouelkhair, Pariksheet Nanda, Rajamani Narayanan, Rezvan Joshaghani (on behalf of Steven Cutchin), Shaoming Cheng, Surl-Hee (Shirley) Ahn, Tae Kim, Thai Le, Wayne Smith, Wenbin Zhang, Yunji Zhang

    • Regrets: A. Murat Maga, Deepak Kumar, Gerasimov Roman, Kresimir Rupnik, Parisa Khodabakhshi, Peter Couvares, Petr Krysl ,Roman Gerasimov, Sameer Sameer, Stefano Iacus, Steven Cutchin, Vasiliy Znamenskiy, Vojtech Vlcek, Wei Yang, William Lai,

  • ACCESS Attendees: Bruno Abreu (Allocations), Tom Furlani & Joe White (Metrics), Amitava Majumdar (ACO), JP Navarro & Dave Wheeler (Operations), Jason Armbruster (Support), Eric Adams (RP Forum), Shava Smallen (CloudBank, SDSC) and Cindy Wong

  • 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

Time (CT)

Topic

Time (CT)

Topic

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

Welcome & Introductions

  • New ACCESS Allocations leadership team (B. Abreu, N. Tolbert, K. Hackworth, R. Light)

2:10 PM - 2:15 PM (5 mins)

Logistics and Charter

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM (15 mins)

Announcements and Updates

  • ACCESS Year 5: Shared Priorities (Tom Furlani, ACCESS Metrics) - slides

  • NSF ACCESS & NAIRR National AI Workshop (Jason Armbruster, ACCESS Support)

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM (30 mins)

AI as-a-service in the ACCESS Ecosystem

  • Improving CiDeR resource description in support of AI (JP Navarro, ACCESS Operations) - slides

  • Overview of CloudBank 2.0 (Shava Smallen, SDSC) - slides

3:00 PM - 3:25 PM (25 mins)

Open Discussion

  • What should the ACCESS program focus on over the next 6 months?

    • Research demands and trends

    • Educational and training demands and trends

  • Other topics that members find appropriate

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

Review and Next Steps

  • Action recap

  • Committee request for future topics

  • Next meeting - Fall 2026

  • Adjourn

Meeting Logistics

  • Website: Home - Access

  • Wiki: ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee

  • Charter: ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee Charter

  • Agenda topic requests