NUG Executive Committee (NUGEX)

The Executive Committee (NUGEX) of the NERSC Users Group (NUG) is a group of NERSC users who oversee NUG activities for the benefit of NERSC’s user community of 10,000+ researchers across all scientific domains of the DOE Office of Science. In short, NUGEX is the voice of the user community at NERSC and the DOE.

Serve on NUGEX

NUGEX members serve rolling three-year terms, so nominations are ongoing. You can self-nominate or nominate another NERSC user.

Make a NUGEX nomination

NUGEX members serve three-year terms and meet regularly (up to an hour per month) with NERSC staff. Some things the committee addresses include the following:

  • Identifying HPC needs from NERSC users and scientific communities
  • Identifying training needs for NERSC users
  • Providing topics or activities related to the NUG annual meeting
  • Coordinating activities at meetings and conferences where NERSC users and/or NERSC staff contributions would be valuable
  • Proposing and scheduling monthly NUG user meeting topics
  • Receiving updates from NERSC on important topics

NUGEX is also consulted on many NERSC policy issues, such as batch configurations, disk quotas, services, and training offerings.

In addition, NUGEX members may also help evaluate nominations for the NERSC Early Career Achievement Awards and submissions to the NERSC High Impact Science at Scale program, and attend the annual in-person NUG meeting.

Current NUGEX Members

Name Institution DOE Office Term expires PI's project title
Alexei Bazavov MSU NP March 2028
Marc Olivier Delchini ORNL FES March 2028
Thorsten Hellert Berkeley Lab BES March 2028
Dirk Hufnagel Fermi National Lab HEP March 2028
Youzuo Lin UNC Chapel Hill ASCR Dec 2025 High Performance Data Visualization, Analytics
Paul Kent Oak Ridge National Lab BES March 2028
Ted Kisner Berkeley Lab FES March 2028 DESI, CMB
Anthony Kremin Berkeley Lab HEP March 2028
Nikhil Kumar Berkeley Lab BER March 2028
Dylan McReynolds Berkeley Lab BES March 2028
Jonathan Owens GE Vernova ALCC Dec 2025 ATG: CoDesign for Exascale
Igor Shabalov Berkeley Lab BER March 2028
David Trebotich Berkeley Lab ASCR March 2028 Advanced Simulation of Pore Scale Flow and Transport Processes in Nanoporous Materials
Bindesh Tripathi U. Wisconsin - Madison FES March 2028
Jean Luca Bez Berkeley Lab ASCR March 2028 Proactive Data Containers for Exascale Storage Systems
John Wright MIT FES Dec 2026 Analysis for the SPARC magnetic fusion experiment
Emily Belli (Chair) General Atomics FES March 2028 Plasma Edge Simulation Laboratory
Andre Walker-Loud Berkeley Lab NP March 2028
Koichi Sakaguchi PNNL BER March 2028 Water Cycle and Climate Extremes Modeling (WACCEM)
Pieter Maris Iowa State University NP March 2028