Leader in research cyberinfrastructure with almost 20 years of experience enabling science. Continuous history of supporting researchers across several disciplines, funding agencies, and organizations using a variety of technologies. Engages stakeholders and seeks out diverse viewpoints to create optimal solutions. Open-source contributor at both the code and leadership levels.
Education
| Year | Degree |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Doctor of Philosophy: Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA Dissertation: Fast Measurements of Two-Point Statistics in Simulations of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence Advisor: Professor Michael L. Norman |
| 2009 | Candidate of Philosophy: Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2006 | Master of Science: Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2004 | Bachelor of Science: Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA magna cum laude Physical Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Excellence, 2004 |
| 2002 | Associate of Arts: Transfer Studies San Diego Mesa College San Diego, CA with honors |
Employment
| Dates | Role and Organization |
|---|---|
| 2023-10 – Current | Chief Technology Officer San Diego Supercomputer Center University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2020-05 – 2023-09 | Principal Systems Integration Engineer Research IT University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2016-09 - 2020-05 | Globus Professional Services Manager Globus University Of Chicago Chicago, IL |
| 2012-06 - 2016-09 | HPC Systems Manager San Diego Supercomputer Center University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2010-01 - 2012-06 | HPC Systems Engineer San Diego Supercomputer Center University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 1999-02 - 2014-12 | IT Manager Sterling Corporate Custom Elevator Interiors National City, CA |
| 2005-01 - 2010-01 | Graduate Student Researcher Department of Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
Community & Leadership Roles
| Dates | Role and Organization |
|---|---|
| 2025-01 – Current | Member Project Jupyter Executive Council |
| 2025-01 – Current | Member Jupyter Foundation Governing Board |
| 2022-01 – Current | Member InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board |
| 2020-01 – Current | President Herschel Condominiums Association La Jolla, CA |
| 2023-01 – 2024-12 | Security Representative Project Jupyter Software Steering Council |
| 2021-01 – 2021-12 | Fellow Trusted CI Fellows Program |
| 2016-10 – 2018-04 | Secretary Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. |
Publications
Journal Articles
Making Common Fund data more findable: catalyzing a data ecosystem
Charbonneau, A. L., Brady, A., Czajkowski, K., Aluvathingal, J., Canchi, S., Carter, R., Chard, K., Clarke, D. J. B., Crabtree, J., Creasy, H. H., D'Arcy, M., Felix, V., Giglio, M., Gingrich, A., Harris, R. M., Hodges, T. K., Ifeonu, O., Jeon, M., Kropiwnicki, E., Lim, M. C. W., Liming, R. L., Lumian, J., Mahurkar, A. A., Mandal, M., Munro, J. B., Nadendla, S., Richter, R., Romano, C., Rocca-Serra, P., Schor, M., Schuler, R. E., Tangmunarunkit, H., Waldrop, A., Williams, C., Word, K., Sansone, S., Ma'ayan, A., Wagner, R., Foster, I., Kesselman, C., Brown, C. T., White, O.
GigaScience, 11, giac105 (2022)
doi:10.1093/gigascience/giac105
Coordinating an operational data distribution network for CMIP6 data
Petrie, R., Denvil, S., Ames, S., Levavasseur, G., Fiore, S., Allen, C., Antonio, F., Berger, K., Bretonni'ere, P.-A., Cinquini, L., Dart, E., Dwarakanath, P., Druken, K., Evans, B., Franchist ́eguy, L., Gardoll, S., Gerbier, E., Greenslade, M., Hassell, D., Iwi, A., Juckes, M., Kindermann, S., Lacinski, L., Mirto, M., Nasser, A. B., Nassisi, P., Nienhouse, E., Nikonov, S., Nuzzo, A., Richards, C., Ridzwan, S., Rixen, M., Serradell, K., Snow, K., Stephens, A., Stockhause, M., Vahlenkamp, H., Wagner, R.
Geoscientific Model Development, 14, 629–644 (2021)
doi:10.5194/gmd-14-629-2021
ENZO: An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics (Version 2.6)
Brummel-Smith, C., Bryan, G., Butsky, I., Corlies, L., Emerick, A., Forbes, J., Fujimoto, Y., Goldbaum, N., Grete, P., Hummels, C., Kim, J., Koh, D., Li, M., Li, Y., Li, X., OShea, B., Peeples, M., Regan, J., Salem, M., Schmidt, W., Simpson, C., Smith, B., Tumlinson, J., Turk, M., Wise, J., Abel, T., Bordner, J., Cen, R., Collins, D., Crosby, B., Edelmann, P., Hahn, O., Harkness, R., Harper-Clark, E., Kong, S., Kritsuk, A., Kuhlen, M., Larrue, J., Lee, E., Meece, G., Norman, M., Oishi, J., Paschos, P., Peruta, C., Razoumov, A., Reynolds, D., Silvia, D., Skillman, S., Skory, S., So, G., Tasker, E., Wagner, R., Wang, P., Xu, H., Zhao, F.
JOSS, 4, 1636 (2019)
doi:10.21105/joss.01636
Energy Cascade and Scaling in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Kritsuk, A. G., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
JFM, 729, R1 (2013)
doi:10.1017/jfm.2013.342
Flux Correlations in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Wagner, R., Falkovich, G., Kritsuk, A. G., Norman, M. L.
JFM, 713, 482 (2012)
doi:10.1017/jfm.2012.470
Profiles of Dark Matter Velocity Anisotropy in Simulated Clusters
Lemze, D., Wagner, R., Rephaeli, Y., Sadeh, S., Norman, M. L., Barkana, R., Broadhurst, T., Postman, M., Ford, H.
ApJ, 752, 141 (2012)
doi:10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/141
Quantifying the Collisionless Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxies in A1689
Lemze, D., Rephaeli, Y., Barkana, R., Broadhurst, T., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
ApJ, 728, 40 (2011)
doi:10.1088/0004-637X/728/1/40
On the Density Distribution in Star-forming Interstellar Clouds
Kritsuk, A. G., Norman, M. L., Wagner, R.
ApJL, 727, L20 (2011)
doi:10.1088/2041-8205/727/1/L20
Turbulent Motions and Shocks Waves in Galaxy Clusters simulated with AMR
Vazza, F., Brunetti, G., Kritsuk, A., Wagner, R., Gheller, C., Norman, M.
A\&A, 504, 33 (2009)
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200912535
The Statistics of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Kritsuk, A. G., Norman, M. L., Padoan, P., Wagner, R.
ApJ, 665, 416 (2007)
doi:10.1086/519443
The Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation Project: I. Confusion and the WHIM in Upcoming Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Surveys
Hallman, E. J. , O'Shea, B. W., Burns, J. O., Norman, M. L., Harkness, R., Wagner, R.
ApJ, 671, 27 (2007)
doi:10.1086/522912
Book Chapters & Conference Proceedings
Cheap and FAIR: Building a Serverless Research Data Repository
Zonca, A., Wagner, R.
Gateways 2024 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13887292
Cheap and FAIR: A Serverless Research Data Repository for the Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment
Zonca, A., Wagner, R., Borrill, J.
PEARC '24: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing, 61, 1-4 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3626203.367055
Active Research Data Management with the Django Globus Portal Framework
Saint, N., Chard, R., Vescovi, R., Pruyne, J., Blaiszik, B., Ananthakrishnan, R., Papka, M., Wagner, R., Chard, K., Foster, I.
PEARC '23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, 1, 43 (2023)
doi:10.1145/3569951.3593597
An Open Ecosystem for Pervasive Use of Persistent Identifiers
Ananthakrishnan, R., Chard, K., D'Arcy, M., Kesselman, C., Foster, I., McCollam, B., Pruyne, J., Rocca-Serra, P., Schuler, R., Wagner, R.
PEARC '20, 1, 99 (2020)
doi:10.1145/3311790.3396660
Petrel: A Programmatically Accessible Research Data Service
Allcock, W. E., Allen, B. S., Ananthakrishnan, R., Blaiszik, B., Chard, K., Chard, R., Foster, I., Lacinski, L., Papka, M. E., Wagner, R.
PEARC '19, 49, 1 (2019)
doi:10.1145/3332186.3332241
Comet: Tales from the long tail: Two years in and 10,000 users later
Strande, S. M., Cai, H., Cooper, T., Flammer, K., Irving, C., von Laszewski, G., Majumdar, A., Mishin, D., Papadopoulos, P., Pfeiffer, W., Sinkovits, R. S., Tatineni, M., Wagner, R., Wang, F., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Wolter, N., Norman, M. L.
PEARC17, 38, 1 (2017)
doi:10.1145/3093338.3093383
COSMIC2: A science gateway for cryo-electron microscopy structure determination
Cianfrocco, M. A., Wong-Barnum, M., Youn, C., Wagner, R., Leschziner, A.
PEARC17, 22, 1 (2017)
doi:10.1145/3093338.3093390
User Managed Virtual Clusters in Comet
Wagner, R., Papadopoulos, P., Mishin, D., Cooper, T., Tatineni, M., von Laszewski, G., Wang, F.
XSEDE '16, (2016)
doi:10.1145/2949550.2949555
Scaling in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Kritsuk, A. G., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
ASP Conference Series, 498, 16 (2015)
URL
Storage utilization in the long tail of science
Lockwood, G. K., Tatineni, M., Wagner, R.
XSEDE '15, 32, 1 (2015)
doi:10.1145/2792745.2792777
Opportunistic Resource Usage in CMS
Kreuzer, P., Hufnagel, D., Dykstra, D., Gutsche, O., Tadel, M., Sfiligoi, I., Letts, J., Würthwein, F., McCrea, A., Bockelman, B., Fajardo, E., Linares, L., Wagner, R., Konstantinov, P., Blumenfeld, B., Bradley, D., The CMS Collaboration
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 513, 6 (2014)
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/6/062028
Gateways to Discovery: Cyberinfrastructure for the Long Tail of Science
Moore, R. L., Baru, C., Baxter, D., Fox, G. C., Majumdar, A., Papadopoulos, P., Pfeiffer, W., Sinkovits, R. S., Strande, S., Tatineni, M., Wagner, R., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Norman, M. L.
XSEDE '14, 39, 1 (2014)
doi:10.1145/2616498.2616540
SR-IOV: Performance Benefits for Virtualized Interconnects
Lockwood, G. K., Tatineni, M., Wagner, R.
XSEDE '14, 47, 1 (2014)
doi:10.1145/2616498.2616537
Using Gordon to accelerate LHC science
Wagner, R., Tatineni, M., Hocks, E., Yoshimoto, K., Sakai, S., Norman, M. L., Bockelman, B., Sfiligoi, I., Tadel, M., Letts, J., Würthwein, F., Bauerdick, L. A.
XSEDE '13, 59, 1 (2013)
doi:10.1145/2484762.2484834
Hadoop deployment and performance on Gordon data intensive supercomputer
Tatineni, M., Greenberg, J., Wagner, R., Hocks, E., Irving, C.
XSEDE '13, 45, 1 (2013)
doi:10.1145/2484762.2484831
Gordon: design, performance, and experiences deploying and supporting a data intensive supercomputer
Strande, S. M., Cicotti, P., Sinkovits, R. S., Young, W. S., Wagner, R., Tatineni, M., Hocks, E., Snavely, A., Norman, M.
XSEDE '12, 3, 1 (2012)
doi:10.1145/2335755.2335789
Exploring large data over wide area networks
Hereld, M., Insley, J. A., Olson, E. C., Papka, M. E., Vishwanath, V., Norman, M. L., Wagner, R.
Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), 2011, 133 (2011)
doi:10.1109/LDAV.2011.6092335
A RESTful catalog for simulations
Wagner, R.
Mem. Soc. Astron. Ital., 80, 365 (2009)
URL
Scaling Laws and Intermittency in Highly Compressible Turbulence
Kritsuk, A. G., Padoan, P., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
AIP Conference Proceedings, 932, 393 (2007)
doi:10.1063/1.2778991
Theory SkyNode
Wagner, R., Norman, M.L.
ASP Conference Series, 382, 289 (2007)
URL
Simulating Cosmological Evolution with Enzo
Norman, M. L., Bryan, G. L., Harkness, R., Bordner, J., Reynolds, D., O'Shea, B., Wagner, R.
Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, Ed. D. Bader, CRC Press LLC (2007)
doi:10.1201/9781584889106
High resolution simulations of supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds
Kritsuk, A. G., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L., Padoan, P.
ASP Conference Series, 359, 84 (2006)
URL
Articles & Videos
This is a list of blog posts and news articles about me, or that I've contributed to, and videos of my presentations, interviews, and training I've led. Overall, these are a good summary of my activities outside of astrophysics research and provide a chronology of my professional development.
2025
- Congratulations, Distinguished Contributors!
- Trusted CI Member Spotlight: Rick Wagner
- SDSC's Rick Wagner Takes a Leading Role in Project Jupyter
- JupyterCon 2025!
- Project Jupyter’s 2025 Executive Council Elections
2024
- Gateways 2024 Tutorial: Cheap and FAIR: Building a Serverless Research Data Repository
- Super Compute, AI, Physics, and Motorcycles? - with Rick Wagner
2023
- San Diego Supercomputer Center Announces New Lead of Technology
- European Commission Funds Jupyter Bug Bounty Program
- Using the Trusted CI Framework to Create the CFDE Cybersecurity Program
2022
- Three California Universities Commit to Growing a Community of Cyberinfrastructure Professionals
- Requiring 2FA for Jupyter GitHub Organizations
- Accelerating Research at UCSD with Globus
2020
2019
- Advancing Jupyter, Kubernetes, and Globus at ALCF
- Managing large-scale cosmology simulations with Parsl and Singularity
2018
2016
- OpenSFS Reinvents Itself with a Focus on User Needs
- User Managed Virtual Clusters in Comet
- Lustre Data Mover: Because File Systems are Rooted Trees and `rsync` Must Die
- Comet: No Research Barriers
- SDSC Big Data
2015
- Seagate SSDs Boost Analytics on Comet Supercomputer
- Supercomputers, Raspberry Pis and Purple Puppies
- Improving HPC File System Performance and Data Integrity
- SDSC’s Data Oasis Gen II: ZFS, 40GbE, and Replication
2014
2013
- SDSC Wraps the Long-Tail Death Match at SC13
- SDSC Uses Meteor Raspberry Pi Cluster to Teach Parallel Computing
- Rasberry Pi Cluster to Power Gaming Competition in SDSC Booth at SC13
2011
- Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionization – Field Comparison: Density
- Research Team Does Galactic Volume Difference Rendering at SC11
- Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionization: Field Comparison: Ionization Fraction
- Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionization: Field Comparison: Density
- Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionizatoin: Field Comparison:Temperature
- Discussion Between SDSC and Argonne About the Challenges of Visualizing Large Data Sets