James Botts earned his Ph.D. in High Energy Theory from Stony Brook University. He subsequently worked at the University of Washington, Illinois Institute of Technology, and DESY-IfH Zeuthen and has published papers on perturbative QCD. He was the maintainer of the source code used to generate the early CTEQ Parton distributions. Before joining NERSC, James was Director of Professional Services of Penguin Computing and was primarily focused on high-performance Linux clustering.
Current role