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Background

William (Bill) Miller is an engineer and scientist with careers in industry, academia, and government. Most recently he was the Senior Advisor of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), providing leadership on strategic NSF and federal initiatives to expand access to computational, data, and Artificial Intelligence infrastructure for scientific discovery and innovation. As an engineer, he contributed to major space missions at NASA and abroad. Interest in neural networks led him to neuroscience; after doctoral and post-doctoral training, he held faculty research positions at UC San Francisco and in Europe, conducting investigations of the neural correlates of human perception. In 2008, Dr. Miller joined the U.S. National Science Foundation, where he has held program and management appointments across the agency. He 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.