Christopher Navarro
Christopher Navarro
Primary Affiliation: Equity, Justice, and Human Flourishing Working Group
Lead Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skill Highlights
Software Development
Scientific Workflows
Software Design
High Performance Computing
Policy Expertise
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EXPERIENCE &
BACKGROUND
ABOUT
Christopher Navarro is a Lead Research Programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in the Software Directorate. His research interests focus on designing, developing and operating end-to-end cyber-environments supporting various research and education communities. He is also interested in cloud computing, scientific workflows, high performance computing, web applications and Eclipse Rich Client Platform development. Current representative projects include IN-CORE (Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment) for modeling community resilience to various natural hazards: Seismic Risk Assessment Systems, DataWolf: Scientific Workflow System, and Cover Crop: a Web-based decision support tool for cover crop adoption. Through those projects, he is collaborating with various scientific domains such as hazard management, hazard risk assessment, and environmental engineering.
2001 – B.S. (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Engagement
Federal Agricultural Policy
Web-based decision support for cover crops, crop insurance and farm programs
IN-CORE project at NCSA
Christopher Navarro co-leads the software development on the IN-CORE project at NCSA. Working with NIST researchers and partners from 12 universities led by Colorado State University, the Community Resilience Center of Excellence, awarded in February 2015, will accelerate the development of system-level models and associated databases to support community resilience decision making
IN-CORE
Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment - The center's multi-disciplinary team includes experts in engineering, economics, data and computing, and social sciences. Research will support development of metrics and tools that will help local governments decide how to best invest resources intended to lessen the impact of hazards on buildings and infrastructure systems and how to recover rapidly and minimize community disruption
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