Lee Liming

Lee is a leader in the Globus community, an international, multi-institutional community governed by open source principles, united by the shared goal of making Grid computing a practical reality for science and the computing industry.

His current involvement in sponsored research and IT projects includes the NSF's TeraGrid, where he is an area director for software integration, and the NSF's CDIGS (Community-Driven Improvement of Globus Software) project, where he leads the outreach and "user and usage analysis" activities in addition to project management work.

Lee participated in many pioneering Grid and cyberinfrastructure communities, including the DARPA Quorum program, NASA's Information Power Grid initiative, the NSF's PACI program and the National Computational Science Alliance, NSF's NEES initiative, and the NSF Middleware Initiative's GRIDS Center. He has contributed to international Grid initiatives including the UK e-Science Programme and the European DataGrid and EGEE programmes. He routinely gives technical tutorials at the annual ACM/IEEE Supercomputing conferences, Global Grid Forum (now OGF) meetings, and various scientific workshops for federal agencies.

Prior to his work at Argonne and the University of Chicago, Lee worked at the University of Michigan School of Information where he was responsible for the school's IT infrastructure and played a supporting role in restructuring the school's graduate degree programs, as well as participating in the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative. He also worked for several years in the corporate sector for ProQuest Information and Learning, where he helped the company develop Web-based commercial products for delivering their content to libraries and government agencies.