Daniel's main research interest is in the allocation of resources (computing and network resources) in the realm of real-time, with main concerns being power management, security, and fault tolerance. He bridges the gap between the operating systems and networking research fields, between practice and theory.

Lately, he has also been focusing on how to increase diversity in computing and how to promote reproducible research in computing.

Giannis Mpourmpakis received a B.S. in Chemistry, an M.S. in Applied Molecular Spectroscopy, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry from the University of Crete. He was then a post doctoral “Marie-Curie” research fellow at the Center for Catalytic Science and Technology (University of Delaware) for the outgoing phase, and then at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology in Hellas, Greece, for the return phase. He then held a senior researcher position at the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation at the University of Delaware before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2013.

Robert “Rob” Coalson received both his B.A. in physics and chemistry and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University. He was advised by Professor Martin Karplus who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Rob Coalson joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1986 after a two-year post doc at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is now a Professor of both Physics and Chemistry. He had won several awards including the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh in 2006 as well as numerous NSF grants to support his research.

Ron Larsen received his B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Purdue, his M.S. in Applied Physics from The Catholic University of America, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. His early career was spent at NASA working in several capacities and receiving several awards in recognition of his work. Among his achievements was the launching of NASA’s computer science research program in the early 1980s. He then worked at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he assumed several administrative and leadership roles, before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Dean of the School of Information Science in 2002.

Yang Wang received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and an M.E. in Electronic Physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also obtained an M.S. in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Florida Atlantic University. He holds a primary appointment as Senior Computational Scientist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center since 1996 and is an Adjunct Faculty in the Physics Department of Duquesne University since 2010. He has received the 1998 Gordon Bell Prize for high performance computing and the Year 2000 Smithsonian Computerworld Program Award.