Presenter

Neil Chue Hong is the Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, a national facility for cultivating better and more sustainable research software to enable world-class research led by the University of Edinburgh. He is also the current Chair of the Software Carpentry Foundation Advisory Council, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Research Software and co-author of Best Practices for Scientific Computing. Neil has worked with researchers from across the UK and internationally to address barriers to the use of cyberinfrastructure in research domains such as biosciences, chemistry, digital humanities, Earth systems modeling, medicine, and the social sciences. From 2007-2010, Neil was Director of OMII-UK, which provided and supported free, open-source software to the UK e-Research community. He was also previously General Chair of the ACM/IEEE Grid 2010 conference, and chair of the ASEArch CCP (Algorithms and Software for Emerging Architecture Collaborative Computational Project). He received an MPhys degree in computational physics from the University of Edinburgh and is based within Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre.