- Email:
- alwalsh@iu.edu
- Areas of Interest:
- Information Technology
- Cloud Computing
- Data Science
- Management
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Education
- M.S., Business Analytics, Indiana University
- B.A. Religious Studies, Indiana University
Biography
Alan Walsh is a 25 year veteran of Information Technology. He currently serves as a data engineer in the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University, helping researchers conduct big data analytics using on-premise and cloud computing resources. Previous roles include management of IT Community Partnerships, the university Constituent Relationship Management system, as well as identity and access, where his team was responsible for directory data, access provisioning, password management, web single sign-on, and federated identity for the institution. His career also involves numerous inter-institutional projects. He served as inaugural co-chair of the Identity Management Taskforce for the Committee on Institutional Collaboration, and he is a regular presenter at regional and national conferences.
Highlights
- O’Neill Adjunct Teaching Award, 2023
Selected Works
- “Scholarly Data Share: A Model for Sharing Big Data in Academic Research,” (with Katie Chapman, Guangchen Ruan, Esen Tuna, et al.), PEARC ’22: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, Article 2, 1–8, (July 2022)
- “CADRE: A Cloud-Based Data Service for Big Bibliographic Data,” (with Xiaoran Yan, Guangchen Ruan, Dimitar Nikolov, et al.), CIKM '21: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Pages 4283–4292, (October 2021)
- "FutureWater Indiana: A science gateway for spatio-temporal modeling of water in Wabash basin with a focus on climate change," (with J.R. Dierauer, C. Zhu, L. Gong, et al.), PEARC '20: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, 252-261, (July 2020)
