Program Management Portfolio

Program Areas

Managed/Co-Managed

As Program Manager in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Program, my portfolio covers the following program areas.

  • AI Artificial Intelligence
  • QC/QN Quantum Computing and Quantum Networking
  • HPC High-Performance, Heterogeneous, Accelerated Computing, Supercomputing, Exascale Computing
  • Base CS Basic Computer Science
  • SciDAC Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
  • SBIR Small Business Innovation Research.

Budget

The total budget for my portfolio varies between $100 million and $150 million, under variations in periods of performance of projects.

Below is a listing of funding opportunities and details of released solicitations in which I am in charge as a Program Manager.

Funding Opportunities Solicitations

Funding Opportunities

Released/Co-Released

The following are the funding solicitations that I released or co-released as Program Manager in the period 2023-2025.

NOFO=Notice Of Funding Opportunity
FOA=Funding Opportunity Announcement
LAB=National Laboratories-only Solicitation

Type Identifier Total Funding Limit Awards Solicitation Topic/Area
LAB LAB-25-3510 $75 million Released, Active SciDAC: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Institutes
LAB LAB-25-3520 $35 million Released, Active Base CS: Competitive Portfolios for Advanced Scientific Computing Research
NOFO DE-FOA-0003545 $16 million Released, Active EXPRESS: Exploratory Research for Extreme-Scale Science
LAB LAB-25-3530 $625 million Released, Active NQISRC: National Quantum Information Science Research Centers
NOFO DE-FOA-0003450 $136 million Released, Active ECRP: Early Career Research Program
FOA DE-FOA-0003432 $500 million across 8 SC Programs Released, Active Open-Call: Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
FOA DE-FOA-0003264 $68 million 11 projects, 43 awards, several subawards AI-for-Science: Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Science
LAB LAB-24-3210 $87 million 9 awards, multiple subawards Base CS&AM: Competitive Portfolios for Advanced Scientific Computing Research
FOA DE-FOA-0003280 $36 million 29 projects, 42 institutions RENEW: Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce
FOA DE-FOA-0003300 $10.8 million 19 projects, several subawards EXPRESS: Exploratory Research for Extreme-Scale Science
FOA SBIR Artificial Intelligence 2 awards SBIR: Small Business Innovation Research
FOA SBIR Digital Twins 1 award SBIR: Small Business Innovation Research
FOA SBIR Mixed Integer Programming 1 award SBIR: Small Business Innovation Research
LAB LAB-23-3040 $24 million 3 projects, 5 awards, several subawards QN: Scientific Enablers of Scalable Quantum Communications

Solicitations

Authored/Co-Authored and Managed/Co-Managed

Principal Investigators

Selected list of areas and Principal Investigators (PIs) or Co-PIs of R&D projects I manage(d) as part of my diverse program management portfolio (2023-2025).

The R&D activity in my portfolio manifests as multi-institutional, multi-year projects led by principal investigators who are researchers from national laboratories, university faculty, and industry entrepreneurs.

PI/Co-PI Institution Area
AI-for-Science Program
Harshitha Menon Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory AI RA2 - Software
Keita Teranishi Oak Ridge National Laboratory AI RA2 - Software
Computer Science Base Program
Tammie Borders National Energy Technology Laboratory Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
Dirk Van Essendelft National Energy Technology Laboratory Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
Michael James Cerebras Systems, Inc. Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
John Shalf Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
Keita Teranishi Oak Ridge National Laboratory Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
Franz Franchetti Carnegie Mellon University Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
SciDAC Program
Lenny Oliker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory SciDAC - Computer Science Institute (RAPIDS2)
Rob Ross Argonne National Laboratory SciDAC - Computer Science Institute (RAPIDS2)
Quantum Computing Program
Travis Humble Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quantum Science Center (NQISRC)
Irfan Siddiqi University of California, Berkeley Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT)
Susan Clark Sandia National Laboratory Quantum Scientific Computing Open Userer Testbed (QSCOUT)
Quantum Networking Program
Yanne Chembo University of Maryland Quantum Networking
Eden Figueroa Brookhaven National Laboratory Quantum Networking
Rajkumar Kettimuthu Argonne National Laboratory Quantum Networking
Joeseph Lukens Purdue University Quantum Networking
Inder Monga Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Quantum Networking
Cristian Pena Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Quantum Networking
Nick Peters Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quantum Networking
Nageswara Rao Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quantum Networking
Mariam Kiran Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quantum Networking
Panagiotis Spentzouris Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Quantum Networking
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts Quantum Networking
EXPRESS Program
Kevin Brown Argonne National Laboratory EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
Emily Dolson Michigan State University EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
Jason Liu Flordia International University EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
Nandakishore Shanti Los Alamos National Laboratory EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
Luis Zaman University of Michigan EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
SBIR/STTR Program
Vijay Hanagandi OSI Opt SBIR - Mixed Integer Programming
Caitlin Ross Kitware, Inc SBIR - Digital Twins
Pranav Gokhale Infleqtion, Inc SBIR - Quantum Computing
Keiko Munechika HighRI Optics, Inc SBIR - Quantum Networking
Sowmya Ramachandran Stottler Henke Assoc. Inc SBIR - Artificial Intelligence/LLM
Svitlana Volkova Aptima, Inc SBIR - Artificial Intelligence/LLM