Speaker

Ron Hutchins

Ron began his career at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the early 1980s, building one of the first networking laboratories in the College of Computing and teaching data communications. In 1991 he became Director of Campus Networks at Georgia Tech, where he led the deployment of the institution’s first IP routers and modernized the campus network infrastructure. During that same period, Ron founded and led Southern Crossroads (SoX), a regional initiative that established an aggregation point in Atlanta connecting Southeastern universities to Internet2 and to each other. In 2001, having earned his PhD in computer networks, he became Chief Technology Officer for Georgia Tech. In 2015 he joined the University of Virginia as Vice President of Information Technology supporting research computing infrastructure for the campus and the state. Ron is now research faculty in UVA’s Computer Science department and a recipient of an NSF CICI award, with current work focused on building and sustaining community infrastructure for the research computing ecosystem.

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