Daniel Reed

Daniel A. Reed is the Presidential Professor in Computational Science (emeritus) at the University of Utah, where he previously served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (aka Provost). Earlier, he was the University Chair in Computational Science and Bioinformatics and Vice President for Research and Economic Development at the University of Iowa. As Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Technology Policy and Extreme Computing, he helped shape Microsoft's long-term vision for technology innovations and the company's policy engagement with governments and institutions worldwide.

Before joining Microsoft, he was the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor and founding director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), with joint faculty appointments at UNC, Duke, and NCSU. At Illinois, he was the Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Head of the Department of Computer Science.

Dr. Reed served as chair of the U.S. National Science Board (NSB), which oversees the National Science Foundation. For a decade, he chaired the Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee. He currently serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Argonne National Laboratory and as a member of the Internet2 Board of Trustees.

Dr. Reed has served as a member of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and the U.S. President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). He is the past chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA) and a co-founder of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), responsible for envisioning new research ideas.

Dr. Reed is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the AAAS. He received his B.S. from Missouri University of Science and Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University, all in computer science. When not working, he writes about science policy and childhood experiences in the Arkansas Ozarks: www.hpcdan.org