Daniel A. Reed

Daniel A. Reed is the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (Provost) at the University of Utah. Previously, he was Vice President for Research and Economic Development, University Chair in Computational Science and Bioinformatics, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iowa. He also served as Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Technology Policy and Extreme Computing, where he helped shape Microsoft’s long-term vision for technology innovations in cloud computing and the company’s associated policy engagement with governments and institutions worldwide.

Before joining Microsoft, he was the founding director of the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also served as Chancellor’s Eminent Professor and Vice Chancellor for Information Technology. Prior to that, he was Gutgsell Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He was also one of the principal investigators and chief architect for the National Science Foundation TeraGrid.

Reed has served as a member of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee. He is the past chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association and currently serves on its government affairs committee. He has been a member of the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization Council. He currently chairs the Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee and serves as a member of the NSF National Center for Optical-Infrared Astronomy Management Oversight Council.

Reed is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the AAAS. He received his BS from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his MS and PhD from Purdue University, all in computer science.