Professor H. Edward Seidel, Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation Rev. Oct 2019 346 Henry Admin Building, MC-356 506 S Wright St Urbana Illinois 61801 Phone: +1 (217) 265-5440 (work) e-mail: [email protected] (work) +1 (225) 302-0612 (mobile) [email protected] (personal) CURRENT University of Illinois (2016 - ). Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation POSITIONS (VPEDI) (Also previously VP for Research); Founder Professor, Department of Physics, Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Computer Science, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE), UIUC; Senior Research Scientist (former Director), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Leader of the Illinois Innovation Network (IIN), an academic consortium of 15 sites, including the Discovery Partners Institute and all 4-year public universities in Illinois. PREVIOUS Founding Interim Director, Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), Oct 2017 – Aug 2018. SENIOR Initiated, conceived, and spearheaded a new billion-dollar interdisciplinary campus of the POSITIONS University of Illinois System and other partners worldwide until it could be launched with a full-time director in 2018. I continue to oversee DPI in my VPEDI role. Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), January 2014 – May 2017 (concurrent with above); Directed leading national center for applications of scientific computing and interdisciplinary research and education. Founder Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 2014 – present. Senior Vice-President for Research and Innovation and Professor, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia, September, 2012 – Jan 2014. The senior academic leader to build a new, private university in Russia in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Russian Federation. Assistant Director, National Science Foundation, for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, August 2009 – September 2012; Oversaw US programs in Astronomy, Chemistry, Materials, Mathematics, and Physics, maintaining LSU Professorship; Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation, August 2008 – June 2010 (concurrent with above). Founding Director, Center for Computation & Technology, July 2003 – November 2008; Floating Point Systems Professor, Departments of Physics and Computer Science, LSU, 2003-2010; Chief Scientist, Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, 2004 – 2008. Professor (C3) and Head of Numerical Relativity & eScience Research Groups (~25+ people) Albert-Einstein-Institut (AEI), Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany, July 1996–October 2005. Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy (with tenure; declined to accept Max Planck Institute Professorship), University of Illinois, 1996. Led a strong research group in numerical relativity at NCSA/UIUC from 1991-1996 as Senior Research Scientist, Head of Numerical Relativity Group, National Center for Supercomputing H. Edward Seidel Applications and Visiting Associate Professor of Physics, University of Illinois. Postdoctoral and Visiting Fellow positions: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois (1989-91); Department of Physics, Washington University (1987-89); Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University (1992), Departement d’Astrophysique Relativiste et de Cosmologie, Observatoire de Paris (1990), concurrently with Illinois positions. EXECUTIVE/ Seasoned senior administrator (chancellor level) and distinguished academic with SYNERGISTIC experience overseeing academic, research, and economic development activities at the EXPERIENCE university campus, system, and federal agency levels. I have a track record of initiating and leading bold projects combining research, education and innovation that move entire organizations forward with local and international impact. My experience working in Europe, Illinois, Louisiana, Russia, and Washington gives me an unusually broad perspective on best practices in university education at the world level. University of Illinois (2014-present). Now in my sixth year at Illinois I have significantly advanced UIUC, the entire university system and state of Illinois in roles I have been asked to play: • Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation (VPEDI, previously as Vice President for Research or VPR). In a chancellor-level position, I work with the University of Illinois System President, campus chancellors, and senior leadership of UIUC, UIC, and UIS, as a key part of a small executive team that leads all aspects of the university system. I initiated and now oversee development of the Illinois Innovation Network (IIN) and the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), a new billion- dollar class education and research campus research in Chicago (see below). I also oversee the Offices of Technology Management (OTM-Urbana and OTM-Chicago), and Illinois Ventures, a university-operated venture fund, that has attracted over $1B in co-funding over its history. Until July, 2019, I also oversaw the Research Park in Urbana with 120 companies in 17 buildings and Enterprise Works Incubator in Urbana, incubating companies that have attracted over $1B in venture funding. • As VPR, VPEDI and Interim DPI Director I conceived, spearheaded, and led team that secured a $500M state appropriation for the Illinois Innovation Network (IIN) and within it the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), a new multi-university, interdisciplinary education, research and innovation campus being built on a 62-acre site in downtown Chicago. DPI is a key hub of the IIN connecting university hubs across Illinois. I have worked closely with governors (Rauner (republican) and Pritzker (democrat)), Chicago mayors, state government and business leaders, and leadership of all the dozen four-year public universities across the state to lay the foundation for a new model for higher education that deeply integrates research, education, and innovation at an unusually large scale. Students work side-by-side with faculty and industry partners to address interdisciplinary grand challenges and are trained in entrepreneurship. Other partners include the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities, and others in Israel, Mexico, Germany, the UK, and beyond. I have led the development of each of these partnerships and continue to oversee the IIN and within it, the DPI. • As Director of NCSA, I led one of the most important international centers for the applications of scientific computing across all research disciplines. With a staff of over H. Edward Seidel 200, NCSA has been at the forefront of scientific computing for over three decades. As home to the National Petascale Computing Facility, NCSA is also host to Blue Waters, one of the world’s most powerful academic computing facilities. I re-positioned NCSA as a center for transdisciplinary research and education, and economic development (with faculty from all areas of the university) and rebuilt and expanded the NCSA Industry program. With campus, national and international leaders in academia, government, and industry I created new national organizations, such as the National Data Service Consortium and Midwest Big Data Hub. I served on the UIUC Chancellor’s Leadership Council. I led development of a concept for a cross-university institute for data science, the Illinois Data Science Initiative that has now secured $25M in private funding in addition to state funding as part of the IIN initiative. Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (2012-14). As Senior Vice-President for Research and Innovation at Skoltech, and as a professor, as the senior academic officer of the university, I was responsible for building the overall education, research and innovation environment of this new university in Russia. Working closely with the Skoltech president and other university leaders, as well as our primary international partner, MIT, the Skolkovo Foundation, the Russian Federation (Deputy Prime Minister and ministry level), industry, and other international university partners, I had the central role to build a new, 21st century, interdisciplinary university. Responsibilities included building completely new, innovative transdisciplinary academic programs involving an array of industry and world-class university partners, which I led. Overseeing an initial 5-year, billion-dollar Skoltech research and innovation budget, I led the creation of 10 international Centers for Research, Education and Innovation, or CREIs (each of which is now operating with 50-100 faculty, staff, students), attracting and hiring faculty, building campus-wide research infrastructure, and creating education, innovation and industrial partnership programs. I also created initial offices of sponsored research (Grants and Contracts Office) and knowledge transfer (KTO), forged numerous international partnerships with Harvard, MIT, and many other partners. National Science Foundation (2008-2012). As NSF Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, I created and/or oversaw US national programs in Astronomy, Chemistry, Materials Science, Mathematics, and Physics; annual budget of approximately $1.4 billion. In addition to national research programs, I also oversaw development, selection, construction, and operations of billions of dollars of large international science facilities (more than a dozen MREFC facilities, e.g., telescopes,