HPC Carpentry Elections: 2025
Democratic elections for the HPC Carpentry Steering Committee successfully completed on 1 July 2025, with 10 ballots cast. The Steering Committee members are:
Alan O’Cais
Currently the technical manager of MultiXscale, an EuroHPC centre of Excellence. Previously acted as the Software Manager of E-CAM, an EU Centre of Excellence in computing applications, while at Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). Also previously managed the user software and application environment on the multi-PFlop JURECA hybrid cluster system at JSC. Between 2010 and 2015, was primarily focused within the LinkSCEEM-2 project helping to develop a Virtual Research Community in Computational Science in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
Maintainer of EasyBuild and EESSI, contributor to a number of open source projects (in particular Magic Castle, which is relevant for HPC Carpentry).
Annajiat Alim Rasel
Annajiat serves as a senior lecturer and coordinator of undergraduate programs at Computer Science and Engineering within the School of Data and Sciences, the largest school at BRAC University (BRACU), Bangladesh, under the umbrella of the world’s largest NGO, BRAC. He is continuously learning from the students and colleagues. He is grateful for having co-taught courses on problem-solving, parallel, distributed, and high-performance computing (HPC), natural language interfaces and processing, data science, modeling and simulation, machine vision, ethical hacking, etc., along with interdisciplinary workshops, training events, being a coach for APAC HPC-AI Competition, ACM ICPC, etc. With kind contributions by HPC Carpentry community members like Alan O’Cais (multiXscale & CECAM), Benson Muite (Kichakato Kizito), Wirawan Purwanto (ODU), M. Abdur Rahman (BRACU), Md. Intekhabul Hafiz (BRACU), and many others, he was able to co-teach the HPC-related pilot workshops that had a profound impact on inspiring and assisting underrepresented and underserved researchers and learners. The Carpentries community has been a source of immense growth for him. He is thankful to have had the opportunity to learn from everyone while serving the global community.
He has served as an instructor, instructor trainer, mentor, curriculum advisor, member of the executive council (EC, now transitioned into the board of directors), instructor trainers leadership committee, code of conduct committee (CoCc), instructor development committee, steering committee for HPC carpentry curriculum development, organizing committee for CarpentryCon, etc. Having joined the CoCc in 2022 and then the EC, he had the opportunity to serve both groups as an EC liaison to the CoCc during 2022–2023. He returned as a CoCc member in 2024 to continue the commitment of fostering a safe and inclusive learning environment. Looking ahead, he is passionate about bridging the digital divide, particularly through ICT4D, with a focus on ICT4ED. He believes in the power of open science, open educational resources, free/libre open-source software, tools, and good practices for research, development, engineering, and education. This includes promoting diversity, democracy, transparency, localization, accessibility, and other aspects of FAIR and CARE principles. Together, he dreams to ensure a safer community of practice, empower the community members, and build a larger Carpentries community in Bangladesh, Asia, and worldwide.
Andrew Reid
I operate a small HPC cluster at NIST, and my ulterior motive for all of this is getting better users for my cluster and others. I feel very strongly that the wider availability of HPC resources has not been matched by a greater understanding of how to use them, and that this is an important skills gap in many fields, and might be most acute for small research teams or informally-assembled clusters, although this is hard to measure. I’m a huge fan of the open-source continuous-improvement model of the Carpentries broadly, and look forward to bringing that spirit to the HPC world.
Trevor Keller
I assist Andrew with a research cluster and data storage at NIST, and have a strong interest in helping scientists overcome barriers to using HPC resources. I have served on the HPC Carpentry Steering Committee since its inception, and enjoy preparing massive PRs to implement sweeping changes to our lessons. I am excited for the Lesson Program Incubation process to advance, and look forward to incorporating more workshop feedback to improve our offerings.