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Ian Fisk, Ph.D.

Director, Scientific Computing Core

Chief Technology Officer, Simons Foundation

Email
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Bio

Ian Fisk came to the Simons Foundation in 2014 after working in the computing division at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois since 2003. Fisk was the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment’s computing coordinator at CERN from 2010 to 2013, overseeing operations and improvements for the global CMS computing infrastructure. Before that, Fisk served in several roles to prepare the experiment for the first run. He oversaw service integration, facility development and operations, and project management. Fisk holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego.

Publications

Sequence-structure-function relationships in the microbial protein universe

Nature Communications, April 26, 2023

J. Koehler Leman, et al.

Structure-Based Protein Function Prediction using Graph Convolutional Networks

bioRxiv 786236, June 10, 2020

V. Gligorijevic, D. Renfrew, T Kosciolek, J. Koehler Leman, D. Berenberg, T Vatanen, et al.

GIANT API: An Application Programming Interface for Functional Genomics

Nucleic Acids Research, July 8, 2016

A Roberts, A. Wong, I. Fisk, and O. Troyanskaya

Featuring Ian Fisk

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New Flatiron Institute Supercomputer the Most Power-Efficient Ever Built

Ian Fisk reaching up to some wires

Computation Opens New Doors for Science

SDSC's data-intensive 'Gordon' supercomputer

Flatiron Institute To Repurpose ‘Gordon’ Supercomputer at UC San Diego

By Ian Fisk

Art for a reckoning for moore's law post

A Reckoning for Moore’s Law

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