Biography
William Barnett, Ph.D is the
Director of Science Community Tools for the Research Technology Division of the
University Information Technology Services at Indiana University. Bill oversees the life sciences research IT practice,
both basic research at IU Bloomington and health care research at the IU School
of Medicine, where he is an adjunct associate professor in Medical and
Molecular Genetics. He is the Director of the National Center for Genome
Analysis Support, a Pervasive Technologies Institute Center that provides a bioinformatics
and computational resource for biologists undertaking genome science. He also oversees the Grid Operations Center
for the Open Science Grid, which provides data and computational resources for
global high-energy physics experiments and other computationally high
throughput science projects, such as the Large Hadron Collider experiments,
nationally.
Bill is also the Director of
Information Infrastructures for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences
Institute. For that, he oversees the
Indiana CTSI HUB (www.indianactsi.org), the web portal for that translational
virtual research organization. He
directs the informatics cores for the multi-site Collaborative for Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, and the National Gene Vector Biorepository,
develops and implements new data management and collaboration systems, and
directs life sciences aligned computational resources. He also specializes in information security
practices. As the Associate Director of
the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Bill led the alignment of IU academic
supercomputing and data management systems with HIPAA, and has recently
authored a roadmap guide to implementing federated identities for
multi-institutional secure collaboration.