William (Bill) Miller is the Senior Director for Research Computing and Data for the University of Utah. In this role, he leads the strategic direction in RCD to support and advance the University’s pioneering computational and data-enabled research; and provides leadership, strategic direction, and execution on the future research computing and data infrastructure. His portfolio includes directing the 45-person Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC), expanding public-private partnerships on Artificial Intelligence infrastructure, and engaging broadly across the state, regionally and nationally, to advance RCD for discovery and innovation.
Bill is an engineer and scientist with careers in industry, academia, and government. As an engineer, he contributed to major manned and unmanned space missions at NASA and abroad. Interest in artificial neural networks led him to neuroscience. After doctoral and post-doctoral training, he conducted research in sensorimotor systems and the neural correlates of perception in faculty research positions at UC San Francisco and in Europe. Bill then joined the U.S. National Science Foundation, where he held program and management appointments across the agency over the course of 17 years. Most recently, he served as Senior Advisor of the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), where he provided leadership on strategic NSF and national initiatives to expand national research access to computational, data, and AI infrastructure. He also detailed to the Department of Energy’s Office of Science where he led the multi-program Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) Architecture Blueprint Activity and oversaw construction of the Perlmutter HPC resource at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).
Bill holds a B.S.E in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of California-Davis.
