Core Team
Orran Krieger
Orran Krieger is the BU PI of the Mass Open Cloud. He is a Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Boston University.
Peter Desnoyers
Peter Desnoyers is the Northeastern University PI of the Mass Open Cloud. He is an Associate Professor in CCIS at Northeastern University, which he joined in 2008.
Michael Zink
Michael Zink is the UMass Amherst PI of the Mass Open Cloud. He is currently Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Jennifer Stacy
Jennifer Stacy is the Associate Director for the MOC and Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University, focusing on stakeholder engagement, communications, finance and administration. Prior to joining the MOC in February 2016, Jennifer worked at Harvard’s Office for Sustainability for over five years.
Michael Daitzman
Michael Daitzman is the Director of Product Development for the MOC and an evangelist for Open Infra Labs. Michael joined the MOC in 2018. Prior to joining the MOC Michael was the Director of PS Product Development at VECNA and the Director of Browser Evangelism and Browser Product Planning at Nokia.
Naved Ansari
Naved Ansari received an M. Eng in Computer Engineering from Boston University in May 2016. He is currently working with the HIL and BMI team. He’s passionate about cloud computing, high performance computing and embedded systems.
Kristi Nikolla
Kristi Nikolla is a Software Engineer with the MOC team since September 2015. He’s currently working with OpenStack development for the Mix & Match Federation project. Kristi received an MS in Computer Science from Boston University in January 2016.
Robert Baron
Hi! I am currently a Sr. Software Engineer at the MOC. I have worked on a variety of projects here including the deployment and support of OpenShift on OpenStack (x86) and on the Power9 systems, design and development of a reporting system. Some of the places I previously worked for included, The University of Pennsylvania, AccuWeather, InfoSys and 24/7 Media BS Chemistry - Westminster College
MSE Computer and Information Systems - University of Pennsylvania.
Lars Kellogg – Stedman
System administration and software development. I like automation. Working with OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ansible, etc. Easily distracted by shiny objects.
Current Research Students
Amin Mosayyebzadeh
I am an intern starting fall 2017 working on Secure Cloud. I am a 3rd year PhD student at University of Rochester. My research interests are HPC, Parallel Computing and Embedded Systems.
Emine Ugur Kaynar
I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Boston University. I’m a member of the Systems Research Group working with Prof. Orran Krieger as my advisor. My research interests lie broadly in the fields of more…
Ali Raza
Ali is interested in ways in which Linux kernel can be reused to create application specific unikernels.