ERN Summit 2025

The ERN Summit 2025
April 23, 2025
Virtual Event 

The virtual Ecosystem for Research Networking (ERN) Summit 2025 provided a forum to share information by industry, domain researchers, and CI professionals on the impacts Advanced Technologies, Quantum, AI, and Workforce Development are having in the research community, and included open discussions and perspectives from those participating in the Summit.  

Meeting Report

For a full summary and analysis of the ERN Summit 2025, downland the meeting report here.

Keynote

“AI and HPC, or AI Ends HPC”

Biography

Dan Stanzione, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Research, Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC).

An  exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the landscape of high-performance computing (HPC) and scientific discovery, framed around the question “Is AI the end of HPC?”.  How AI is transforming HPC, requiring the community to rethink architecture, software, workforce strategy, and environmental impact.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Presentation

Biographies

  • Barr von Oehsen, Ph.D., Director Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  • Forough Ghahramani, Ed.D., Vice President for Research & Innovation, NJedge 
  • Maureen Dougherty, Ecosystem for Research Networking

Panel 1: Regional  Economic and Workforce Initiatives for AI and Quantum

Explore the interplay between advanced technologies and regional innovation ecosystems.

Presentations

Biographies

Moderator: Barr von Oehsen, Ph.D., Director, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) 

Panelists:

  • Craig B. Arnold, Ph.D., The Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Vice Dean for Innovation, Princeton University 
  • Michael Bennett, Ph.D., Director of Education and Workforce Development, Q-SEnSE Quantum Leap Challenge Institute, University of Colorado Boulder 
  • Robert J. Harrison, Ph.D., Executive Director of Empire AI; Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Founding Endowed Director of the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), Stony Brook University
  • John Goodhue, Executive Director, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing (MGHPCC) 

Panel 3:  Perspectives from Non-R1 Smaller institutions

Biographies

Highlight innovations, constraints, and opportunities unique to non-R1 institutions.

Moderator: Carrie Ramp , Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Franklin &  Marshall College

Panelists:

  • Damian Clarke, Ph.D., Vice President, Technology Services, Alabama State University 
  • Wiebke Kuhn, Ph.D., Director of Academic Technology, Carleton College 
  • Jason Simms, Ph.D., Research Computing Manager, Swarthmore College 
  • Kyriakos Tsoukalas, Ph.D., Associate Director, Research and High Performance Computing, Colgate University

Panel 2: Industry-Academic Partnerships for Preparing the Workforce for Quantum   

Explore curricular innovations and partnerships that prepare the future quantum workforce.

Presentations

Biographies

Moderator: Florence Hudson, Executive Director, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Data Science Institute, Columbia University

Panelists:

  • Douglas Jennewein, Executive Director,Research Technology Office, Arizona State University (Quantum Collaborative) 
  • David Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science, Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, Purdue University 
  • Hanna Terletska, Ph.D., QSInitiative Leader, Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) 
  • Monica Van Dieren, Ph.D., Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Quantum computing and HPC, NVIDIA 
  • Benjamin Zwickl, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology

Presentations

PEARC'25 Birds of a Feather "Further Conversations from the Ecosystem for Research Networking Summit Series"

A big thank-you to everyone who attended this year's meeting.

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The ERN Steering Committee

  • Maureen Dougherty, Ecosystem for Research Networking
  • Florence Hudson, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
  • Forough Ghahramani, Edge, Inc.
  • John Goodhue, MGHPCC
  • Vasant Honavar, Pennsylvania State University
  • Carrie Rampp, Franklin & Marshall College
  • Barr von Oehsen, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  • Jim Griffioen,University of Kentucky
  • Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine
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