Jarek Nabrzyski, Ph.D.

CCT Executive Director

As executive director at the CCT, Jarek Nabrzyski works directly under Director Ed Seidel to identify and pursue strategic endeavors that promote and advance LSU’s research, education and economic development activities. He also oversees high-performance computing activities and programs at the CCT.

Prior to joining the CCT, Nabrzyski worked for more than 10 years at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in Poland, where he managed the scientific applications department.  His research specialties include distributed applications, operations research and Grid and high-performance computing. Nabrzyski, with his entrepreneurial skills, mentored several spin-off  companies in Europe. Today, some of these companies work on a global market to transfer and apply knowledge obtained during research and development activities within Nabrzyski's team.

Nabrzyski has established international partnerships to advance Grid computing, networking and high-performance computing capabilities among academic and industrial organizations. He has served as a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on many international, European Union-funded projects and was the coordinator and co-principal investigator on the GridLab project, which developed the Grid Application Toolkit and the GridSphere portal framework. He serves as the European Commission’s expert on Grid and distributed computing.

Nabrzyski has a master’s degree in information sciences and a doctor of philosophy degree in computer science from the Poznan University of Technology in Poland. He also has a diploma in management sciences.