User Support

Ahmad Sheikhzada, PhD

Ahmad has an extensive research background in physics and numerical simulation. He joined Research Computing as a computational scientist, later transitioning into a research consultant role before moving into a managerial position.

Paul Orndorff, PhD

Paul holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of South Florida. Paul is a computational scientist specializing in molecular simulation and data analysis, with a strong foundation in computational chemistry and statistical programming.

Hana Parece

Hana is a Research Computing Associate at Research Computing. She graduated VCU Engineering with a B.S. in Computer Science and has a strong background in mathematics, python, R, object-oriented programming, and parallel computing.

Ruoshi Sun, PhD

Ruoshi holds a Ph.D. in material science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is experienced in electronic structure codes for computational materials science.

Katherine A. Holcomb, PhD

Katherine Holcomb holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin.  Her expertise is in high-performance and parallel computing, primarily for large-scale simulations in a variety of fields.

Marcus Bobar

Marcus is a Senior Computational Scientist at the University of Virginia Research Computing. He specializes in high-performance computing, GPU-accelerated workflows, and large-scale AI and bioinformatics applications.

Camden Duy

Camden is a Research Computing Associate at the University of Virginia. He has previous experience working in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments and coding in Python. He works in the user support team to provide users with prompt support.