tec3@utah.edu
Education and Research Experience
Professor, Department of
Medicinal Chemistry, College of
Pharmacy, July 2014 to present. Director of
Graduate Studies (2011-2017).
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Director,
Research Computing and the Center for High Performance Computing,
University Information Technology,
University of Utah, July 2014 to present.
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Council Chair,
The Campus Research Computing Consortium
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Associate Professor, Department of
Medicinal Chemistry July 2009 to July 2014.
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Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics and
Pharmaceutical Chemistry July 2009 to June 2011.
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Adjunct Associate Professor,
Department of Bioengineering,
July 2009 to present.
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Assistant Professor, Departments of
Medicinal Chemistry and of Pharmaceutics and
Pharmaceutical Chemistry July 2002 to June 2009.
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Assistant Research Professor,
Department of Medicinal Chemistry,
January 2000 to June 2002.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Department of Bioengineering,
July 2000 to June 2009.
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   Member,
Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry.
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   Participant,
Biological Chemistry Program
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NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Biophysics
Section of the Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute,
National Institutes of Health.
Advisor: Bernard R. Brooks
March 1997-January 2000.
PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry: "Realistic simulation of nucleic
acids in solution"
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California at
San Francisco.
Advisor: Peter
A. Kollman
     
(What did I do as a graduate student at
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September 1990-March 1997.
Programmer/Analyst
Aiken Computational Laboratory, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
June 1988-August 1990.
B.A. Chemistry (honors)
    
Thesis: The structure and Function of the Active Oxygen Intermediate
of Cytochrome P450.
    
Advisor: Stephen Sontum
B.A. Mathematics and Computer Science
    
Senior Project: The Fourier Transform and Applications in Digital
Signal Processing
Minor: Personality and Social Psychology
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
March 1989.
Fellowships, Honors, Awards, and Service
University Committees (2014 - present)
- Academic Senate (2019-2022; 2012-2015)
- Academic Senate Executive (2019- )
- Utah Education Network Advisory Council (2015-2021)
- University Information Technology Chief's Team (2014- )
- University Information Technology Leadership Team (2014- )
- University Information Technology Expanded Leadership Team (2014- )
- SACIT - Senate Advisory Committee on Information Technology (2016- )
- Internal Graduate Council Review Committee, Department of Atmospheric
Sciences (2017)
- Senate Ad Hoc Information Technology Committee (2015-2016)
- Information Technology Research Portfolio Committee (2013-2015)
- Operational Information Technology Committee (2013-2015)
- Personnel and Elections (2012-2015)
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
(2011-2017)
- Center for High Performance Computing User Advisory Committee (2001- )
- Architecture and New Technology Committee (ad hoc, 2015- )
- Strategic Information Technology Committee (ad hoc, 2015- )
College of Pharmacy Committees (2014 - present):
- Outcomes Assessment Committee (2004- )
- Computer Committee (2000-, Chair 2007-2014, ad hoc 2014- )
- Mentoring Committee (2012 - )
- PharmD Seminar Evaluator (2014-2016)
National / International
- Internet2
E-CAS "Exploring Cloud for Acceleration of Science"
Advisory Board (2018-)
- Internet2, EDUCAUSE and CaRCC Research Computing and Data Maturity
Model working group (2018-)
- Center for Computational Engineering and Sciences, UNICAP, Brazil,
International Advisory Board (2018-)
- Coalition for Academic Scientific
Computation Vision and Mission committee (Nov 2018-April
2019).
- Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC, www.carcc.org)
Interim Chair (2016-2017), CaRCC Council Chair (2017-2019). Serves
on CI professionalization, Stakeholder and Value Proposition, Future
of Research Computing, Ecosystem of Research Computing and Data
workshop planning, Logistics, Leadership, and Internal working groups.
- Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC), Vice-Chair
(2017-2018), Board Member (2018- )
- Advanced Research Computing on Campuses (ARCC) @ PEARC17, Chair
- PEARC Steering Committee (2016- )
- ACI-REF (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Educator
Facilitator), PI Chair (2016-2018)
- XSEDE Science Advisory Board (2016- )
- XSEDE User Requirements Evaluation and Prioritization Committee (2016-)
- Utah Education Network Advisory Council (2015-2021)
- XSEDE User Advisory Committee (2015- )
- Blue Waters Petascale
Resource Science
and Engineering Team Advisory Committee - SETAC (2014-)
- University of Utah, College of Pharmacy, P2 Teacher of the Year (2013)
- Scientific Advisory Committee of the Swedish National
Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) (10/2013- )
- Annual International HPC Summer School, Organizing Committee,
Presenter, and Mentor (2012- )
- NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) User
Advisory Committee, Chair (2012-2015)
- XSEDE Science Advisory Board (2012-2015)
- XSEDE Senior Management Team (2012-2015)
- XSEDE14 Science Track Chair (2013-2014)
- Supercomputing Education Program Executive Committee (2014)
- NIH MSFD "Computational Biophysics" Study Section (2011-2015)
- International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology,
President (2012-2014), Vice-President (2010-2012)
- Supercomputing 12 Program Committee (2011-2012)
- Board of Editors, Journal of Molecular Graphics and
Modeling, 2009-present.
- Keynote speaker, TeraGrid '09
- Keynote speaker, Mercury conference at Hamilton College, 2009.
- Chosen to present a Telluride Town Talk on the "Science of
Recreational Drugs", 2008.
- One of many recipients of the "Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award" from
the American Chemical Society COMP division for outstanding work in
computational chemistry, 2007.
- Member, NSF Teragrid Scientific Advisory Board, 2007-2011; Chair 2010-2011.
- National Institute of Computational Sciences User Advisory
Committee, 2010-2011.
- Member, University of Utah Cyberinfrastructure Council,
2007-?.
- Member, NSF CyberInfrastructure User Advisory Committee,
2006-2007.
- Teragrid Resource Allocations Committee/LRAC/MRAC (3/04-6/08),
Chair 6/07-6/08.
- Alliance Allocations Board/NRAC, 3/02-9/04.
- Board of Editors, Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics,
Adenine Press (Editor: R. Sarma, SUNY Albany NY), 2001-present.
- Associate Editor, Molecular Modeling and Computational Chemistry
Results, MMCC, Inc. (Editor: D. Busath, BYU), 2004-2005; Assistant
Editor 2000-2004.
thomas cheatham <tec3@utah.edu>
Last modified: Sometime in 2019