About me
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 (Provost). He has served in a variety of senior academic and industry roles, including as Vice President for Research at the University of Iowa. As Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Technology Policy and Extreme Computing, where he helped shape Microsoft's long-term vision for technology innovations in cloud computing and the company's policy engagement with governments and institutions worldwide.
Before joining Microsoft, he was the founding director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. Dr. Reed just completed a term of service as chair of the U.S. National Science Board (NSB), which provides oversight for the U.S. National Science Foundation. He previously chaired the Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Argonne National Laboratory, and serves 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), which represents PhD-granting computer science departments in North America.
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.
