board of directors
Stu Bailey is a technologist and entrepreneur who has been innovating and commercializing large scale model intensive production systems for over two decades. In addition to his role as a board member for the OCC, Stu is the co-founder of ModelOp, the world's leading large enterprise AI Operations company. Stu also founded Infoblox, the world's leading enterprise DDI solution, and spent six years as the technical lead for the National Center for Data Mining under the leadership of Dr. Robert Grossman.
Robert Grossman, Ph.D. is the Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Computer Science and the Jim and Karen Frank Director of the Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS) at the University of Chicago.
Joe Mambretti is Director of the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, which is developing digital communications for the 21st Century. The Center, which was created in partnership with a number of major high tech corporations (www.icair.org), designs and implements large scale services and infrastructure for data intensive applications (metro, regional, national, and global). He is also Director of the Metropolitan Research and Education Network (MREN), an advanced high-performance network interlinking organization providing services in seven upper-Midwest states, and Director of the StarLight International/National Communications Exchange Facility in Chicago, a global exchange for advanced high performance networks, especially for data intensive science, supporting over 100 private networks, 60*100 Gbps circuits and 25 local, national, and international network research testbeds. He is PI for the NSF International Software Defined Networking Exchange (iSDX), PI for the NSF GENI Software Defined Networking Exchange (SDX), co-PI for the Chameleon NSFCloud testbed, PI for StarWave, a multi-100 Gbps communications exchange, PI for OMNInet, and PI for research projects directed at creating programmable 100/400 Gbps and Tbps lightpath-based transport services.