Lili Gai is the Director of High Performance Computing, overseeing Minerva Supercomputer processes and operations. Lili earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

Jielin Yu is a Computational Scientist supporting Minerva Supercomputer processes and operations. He earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University.

Kali Mclennan is a Senior HPC Administrator supporting Minerva Supercomputer processes and operations.

Sharon Nirenberg is the lead physician informaticst coordinating the optimization and translation of data elements in the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM). Sharon holds an MD and MS.

Naomi So is a physician informaticist supporting the Mount Sinai Data Warehouse data request needs for clinicians and researchers. This also includes use of its resources, including the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM) and its respective cohort query tools and interfaces.

Jiani Xiang received an MS in biostatistics from the School of Public Health at the University at Albany SUNY, and has worked in the health industry for over 9 years. Before joining Mount Sinai, Jiani was a research scientist at New York State Office of Mental Health.

Farhan Mahmood is the team’s IT Director responsible for coordinating MSDW and support teams. Farhan has over 25 years of experience in Business Intelligence and the Data Warehousing domain and has a degree in Computer Science. He currently oversees the operations for MSDW Data Warehouse, which includes the loading of data, assisting in new MSDW enhancements and improvements, and handling data requests from Physicians and Researchers. Farhan is also responsible for maintaining the hardware of both physical and virtual servers and upgrading current software that the team uses.

Jacob Weiser is the data warehouse Extract, Transform, and Load developer for the IT team.

Rupan Hossain is a database administrator for the IT team.

Eric Rosenberg is a Senior System administrator.

James “Chip” Masters is a computer scientist with over 20 years of experience in building ontologies and applying them in data management applications utilizing semantic technologies. His expertise is in data integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, and building and using semantic knowledge graphs. He is responsible for the development and application of the Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource (HHEAR) ontology, knowledge graph, and data repository. He also manages a team of computer scientists that are responsible for delivering cohort query tools, electronic data capture systems, and other research data services supporting clinicians and medical scientists within the School and hospital system. Dr. Masters has a PhD in Applied Mathematics.

Raj ensures responsive support and communications with researchers who use Scientific Computing and Data services. Raj has 13 years of experience with academic research computing, and his doctoral and postdoctoral work was in the area of scientific data management.

Jing Yang is an Applications Analyst responsible for facilitating the communication between faculty, staff, researchers, clinicians, and the Scientific Computing and Data team. Jing earned a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from Indiana University.

Ranjini Kottaiyan is Senior Director. Ranjini holds an MBA and an OD, and she has extensive experience in grants administration and healthcare operations.

Maria Castro is Senior Operations Manager. Maria holds an MS from Columbia University in Clinical Psychology. She has experience in project management and buisness operations.