Staff

Nicole M. Johansen, Office Coordinator

Nicole received her Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Brigham Young University.  She is currently working on her Master of Public Administration degree jointly from BYU and the University of Pittsburgh.  She has taught in the public schools as well as in private instutions.  She is interested in educational and non-profit management.

Senthil Natarajan, Grid Computing Specialist

Senthil received his Master of Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Annamalai University in India. He has several years of experience in designing and building enterprise level, distributed object oriented applications. Senthil's scientific interests include grid computing, high performance distributed computing, high throughput computing, and service-on-demand architecture.  He is currently Grid Computing Specialist for Computing Services and Systems Development (CSSD).  He is largely responsible for the work done on Pitt's grid computing system called PittGrid, whose computing resources are available to the Center for Simulation and Modeling.