Sarvani Chadalapaka
Member of the CalCompute Consortium.
- Institution: UC Merced
- Title: Director of Cyberinfrastructure and Research Technologies
- Role: Leads a federally funded UC–CSU regional computing hub in the Central Valley, public research computing built for the campuses that were never going to buy their own
Background
- She is the principal investigator of NSF award 2346744, CENVAL-ARC: $1,000,000 from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. UC Merced leads it with CSU Sacramento, CSU Stanislaus and CSU Fresno (Chadalapaka NSF award 2346744).
- CENVAL-ARC adds GPU and CPU nodes to UC Merced’s Pinnacles cluster, for Hispanic-Serving institutions in the Central Valley (Chadalapaka NSF award 2346744).
- Her CIO’s award nomination says she grew the researchers on UC Merced’s core HPC resources “from 40 to 600” in four years (Chadalapaka UC Tech award 2023).
- She won the 2023 UC Tech Awards DEI leadership silver award. She created a worldwide mentorship program with Women in HPC, and was DEI Co-Chair of the PEARC conference (Chadalapaka UC Tech award 2023).