Technical points of contact at each institution

Each consortium member has designated a person to act as the primary technical point of contact (PoC) and most have also assigned agents to assist with user engagement including responding to tickets.  This team is intended to:

• Be a primary technical point of contact for users from their site, assisting with software installation, login troubleshooting, activating their accounts, etc.
• Become an extension of Empire AI expertise through training from NVIDIA, cross institutional knowledge, and workshops
• Primarily support users from their own site but also sharing knowledge and skills with other sites expertise
• Coordinate with other sites and share knowledge, issues, and solutions
• Assist in standing up scientific user support (documentation, tickets for their site/role)
• Nucleate a consortium-wide EAI technical community

The designated agents now have access to the ticket system and also to Empire AI computer resources, and we are also enabling them to take on key user support roles including account creation, fixing password/authentication issues, via ColdFront.

Below, roles are indicated in square brackets --- [PoC] indicates the lead technical point of contact; [agent] indicates someone who has access to the ticket system and computer resources; and [compute] indicates access to computer resources.

CUNY

• Alexander Tzanov [PoC and agent] - Alexander.Tzanov@csi.cuny.edu 

Columbia

• Elizabeth Kwon [PoC and agent] - ek2864@columbia.edu 
• Max Shortte [PoC] - ms6472@columbia.edu 
• Al Tucker [agent] - at3708@columbia.edu

Cornell

• Scott K. Yoest [PoC and agent] - scott.k.yoest@cornell.edu
• Jay Ajlal [agent] - jay.ajlal@cornell.edu
• Michael John Fantacone [agent] - mjf342@cornell.edu

ISMMS

• Lili Gai [PoC and agent] - lili.gai@mssm.edu
• S M Shamimul Hasan [agent] - smshamimul.hasan@mssm.edu
  

NYU

• Stratos Efstathiadis [PoC] - efstae01@nyu.edu 
• Shenglong Wang [agent] - sw77@nyu.edu 
• Wensheng Deng [agent] - wd35@nyu.edu 
• Lior Atar [agent] - la466@nyu.edu 

RIT

• Emilio Del Plato [PoC and agent] - ehdeec@rit.edu
• Sidney Pendelberry [agent] - slpits@rit.edu

RPI

• Jackie Stampalia [PoC] - stampj@rpi.edu
• Andrew Damin [agent] - damina@rpi.edu 
• Derek Fox [agent] - foxd4@rpi.edu

SUNY

• Albany
  • Nick Karker [PoC and agent] - nkarker@albany.edu 
  • Jun Tan [agent] - jtan4@albany.edu
  • Jose Sobrinho [agent] - jvieirasobrinho@albany.edu
• Binghamton
  • Prof. Jeremy Blackburn [PoC and agent] - jblackbu@binghamton.edu
• Buffalo
  • Matt Jones [PoC and agent] - jonesm@buffalo.edu 
  • Anton Nekhai [agent]
  • Kevin Van Slyke [agent]
  • Dori Sajdak [agent]
  • Andrew Bruno [compute] 
  • Tony Kew [compute]
  • Jon Bednasz [compute]
• Upstate
  • Matthew Mahoney [PoC and agent] - mahonema@upstate.edu
• Stony Brook
  • David Cyrille [PoC] - david.cyrille@stonybrook.edu 
  • David Carlson [agent] - david.carlson@stonybrook.edu

University of Rochester

• Brendan Mort [PoC and agent] - brendan.mort@rochester.edu