I am a computational scientist specialized in computing for curricular and research activities. In my day to day interactions, I act as an interface between the Information Technology department and the academic departments at my institution. As a research computing specialist, I advise researchers on computing needs, design, set up and maintained computing and information systems for scientific discovery. With the ever changing technological landscape, I keep abreast of the latest developments and organize workshops to update researchers on these new developments.
My metamorphic path to become a computational scientist passed through the mastery of fundamental principles of the physical sciences. I studied Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Computer programming.
With the understsanding of basic concepts, theories and principles at hand, I then embarked on a journey of scientific discovery, where, I used commodity and high performance computers along with scientific applications to investigate atomic and electronic processes of molecules and materials.
In the course of my scientific inquisitions, I worked collaboratively, with experimentalists and theoreticians across many areas of the physical sciences. During this process, I developped a passion for setting up computing insfrastructures, interpreting computational output to provide experimentalists with insight into experimental observations, trouble-shoot computers attached to scientific instruments, became accustomed to interpreting scientific jargon accross disciplines and most important, I developped a "can do" mindset that keeps me doing what I love to do now. Read more about my personage...