As Principal Investigator at the University of Montana, I work alongside Lois Curfman McInnes and Anshu Dubey at Argonne National Laboratory and Denice Ward Hood and Santiago Ospina Tabares at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. Our team is investigating how cross-disciplinary teams in scientific computing collaborate in the current period of rapid transformation and how we can support their capacity to learn and innovate.
This research identifies barriers and pathways to team effectiveness as emerging technologies, evolving team structures, and other forces transform the field. Through this project, we will iteratively engage with the scientific computing community to curate, deliver, refine, and promote resources that help cross-disciplinary teams produce high-quality scientific software.
Publications
Ecosystems for scientific computing in the age of AI is published in Issue 28 (2) of IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering.
Our first workshop report offers a look at how this research is unfolding.
Presentations
Perspectives on Teamwork and AI in Scientific Computing.
Presented at the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference (PASC26) in Bern, CH.
https://pasc-conference.org/editions/pasc26/presentation/?id=pos129&sess=sess135
A Survey of Teamwork, AI, and Their Integration in Scientific Computing: Preliminary Findings.
Presented at the Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) User Developer Experience (UDX) Working Group Webinar Series.
https://zenodo.org/records/19101680
Collaboration in Scientific Software: A Systematic Literature Review.
Presented at the 2025 US Research Software Engineering Conference 2025 (USRSE'25) in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17281562
Building High-Performance Teams in High-Performance Computing and Beyond.
Presented at the Clemson University School of Computing Seminar Series (Online).
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ kiderj_this-weeks-clemson-university-school-of-share-7368666685899214848-v2lW/