Projects at UCL (University College London)

UCL: Research Computing Infrastructure (2023–2025)

Appointed to a cross-faculty role within University College London’s Information Services Division (ISD) and Advanced Research Computing (ARC), supporting the university’s evolving roadmap for research computing platforms and services. My work spanned multiple faculties—SLMS, SLASH, Laws, Arts & Humanities, Geography, and the Institute of Education (IOE)—and focused on infrastructure planning, stakeholder engagement, and service enablement initiatives, including research data storage migration and early-phase platform development.

Research Computing Support for Social Sciences: Platform Planning & Service Enablement

As part of UCL's evolving research computing platform efforts, I served as the Research Computing Support Lead for Social Sciences disciplines — including Economics, Geography, Political Sciences, and the Humanities. I contributed to a cross-faculty infrastructure roadmap aimed at supporting scalable VM-based computing and HPC environments for academic users across disciplines. My role focused on technical requirements gathering, service alignment, and stakeholder engagement during a period of institutional transition and evolving platform strategy.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborated with academic users, departmental IT teams, and ARC to surface research computing needs and contribute to platform planning aligned to interdisciplinary requirements.
• Requirements Analysis: Helped shape a prioritised infrastructure roadmap, reflecting realistic service delivery goals.
• Service Enablement: Supported early-phase testing and onboarding for virtual machine environments, JupyterHub-style services, and interactive web-based IDEs for research teams.
• Institutional Coordination: Facilitated communication across ARC, central IT, and research stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of platform capabilities and usage scenarios.

Key Achievements:

• Defined a cross-faculty technical roadmap and scoped a Minimum System Provision (MSP) to support interim service rollout for Social Sciences research computing.
• Enabled forward motion for research teams during institutional delivery constraints by aligning faculty input with realistic service planning goals.

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Other UCL Projects

• Legacy Data Migration (Geography Department): Provided technical guidance, in collaboration with an ARC Research Data Steward, on migrating legacy Geography research datasets into ARC Research Data Storage, including metadata annotation considerations.