Joshua A. Baller, PhD

Dr. Joshua (Josh) Baller is the University of Virginia's Associate Vice President for Research Computing (RC). In this role, he is responsible for strategic direction and leadership in the areas of computational hardware, platforms, and facilitation with the goal of advancing UVA on its pathway to research preeminence. Towards this end Josh partners with stakeholders across grounds, including the Office of the Vice-President for Research, faculty, collegiate senior administrators, and others under the office of the CIO to build infrastructure that will enable researchers across all areas of inquiry.

With former roles directing the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, and leading a large and diverse bioinformatics team, Josh's personal research interests cover the application of machine learning techniques to understand the inter-relationships between multi-modal 'omics' datasets.

Selected papers

Baller et al. A Partnership Framework for Scaling a Workforce of Research Cyberprofessionals. PEARC '22: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2022: Revolutionary: Computing, Connections, You Article No.: 62, Pages 1 - 6 https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530771

Baller et al. CHURP: A Lightweight CLI Framework to Enable Novice Users to Analyze Sequencing Datasets in Parallel. PEARC '19: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2019: Rise of the Machines (learning) Article No.: 96, Pages 1 - 5 https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3333156

A more complete listing of publications can be found at Joshua Baller - Google Scholar

Education

Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota

B.S. in Math - Computer Applications, University of Minnesota

B.S. in Genetics, University of Minnesota