Senior Leadership
Executive Assistant: Veronika Lozina (vl2433@columbia.edu)
Nimish joined CUIT in August 2016, and is responsible for the University’s business critical Enterprise Applications Platform, leading a team of 60+ technology professionals.
Executive Assistant: Veronika Lozina (vl2433@columbia.edu)
Michael Weisner, Senior Research Systems Engineer for the Columbia University Information Technology, joined RCS in 2014. He has a B.A. from New York University's College of Arts and Science in Sociology & Environmental Studies. Michael's work involves the design, development, implementation, and operations of Columbia’s portfolio of research computing services. He collaborates with CUIT technical teams and Columbia researchers to support both on-premise and cloud research computing resources, ensuring user requirements are met and planning ongoing improvements and modifications to these systems and services. In addition, he investigates new and emerging technologies, manages High Performance Computing (HPC) and Secure Data Enclave (SDE) resources.
Medha is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Associate Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management & Identity Access Management. She has served as the University's first CISO since 2006.
Maneesha has worked at CUIT since 2001 and was appointed to AVP of Academic and Research Solutions in June 2016.
Jose has worked at Columbia for over 30 years and his current appointment as AVP of Client Support Services underscores CUIT’s commitment to moving toward a more customer service focused organization providing expanded services.
Jim has worked at CUIT since 2014 and was appointed to the role of AVP, Infrastructure Services in April 2015.
George Garrett, Manager, has been working at Columbia since 1998. Prior to joining RCS in April 2014, he collaborated closely with RCS to assist in the pilot, planning, and launch of the Hotfoot and Yeti HPC clusters. In his current role he is working on provisioning and expanding the HPC clusters and assisting in the introduction of new research computing initiatives. George has 15 years of experience in Linux system administration and has a keen interest in graphics programming, artificial intelligence, and decentralized technologies. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Columbia University.
Gaspare LoDuca is Vice President and CIO at Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT). He leads the University's largest technology management group and oversees all aspects of Columbia University's major information technology systems and networks, as well as IT security, policy, and governance.
Elvira has worked at CUIT since 2005 and previously held the role of AVP, Enterprise Systems.
Dali Plavsic, Senior Research Systems Engineer, joined RCS in 2015. Dali plays a key role in the support and maintenance of RCS’s services, as well as assisting in their future planning and implementation. He also provides HPC support to the research computing community. Dali has been working at CUIT since 2006 and has a M.S. in Technology Management from Columbia University.
Alex Bergier, Senior Research Systems Analyst, joined RCS in October, 2011. He has been at Columbia since 2001 performing research in astronomy at Columbia Astrophysics Laboratories, specifically projects related to dark matter search, supernova studies, and transient phenomena on the moon. Alex has had a long professional career that typically involved large scale data processing for diverse applications and institutions, including particle research (e.g. CERN), finance (e.g. Goldman Sachs), and others. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Stockholm in physics.
Alan Eiland is CUIT's Assistant Vice President of Portfolio Management. In this role, Alan ensures alignment between strategic objectives and implementation and is responsible for Service Management, Program Management and Project Management practices.
Prior to joining the Columbia University in 2012, Alan’s professional experience spanned media, entertainment and educational service industries with a focus on solution delivery, process transformation and technology operations. Alan holds a degree in Economics from Bowdoin College and is certified in multiple IT frameworks.
Executive Assistant: Kristen Schneider (ks2642@columbia.edu)