Daniel Katz
Research Associate Professor
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University
Other professional appointments
Chief Scientist, NCSA
Research Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Associate Professor, Computer Science
Research focus
Development and use of advanced cyberinfrastructure to solve challenging problems at multiple scale. Technical: Applications, algorithms, fault tolerance, and programming in parallel and distributed computing. Policy: citation and credit mechanisms and practices associated with software and data, organization and community practices for collaboration, and career paths for computing researchers.
Publications & Papers
D. S. Katz, N. P. Chue Hong, T. Clark, A. Muench, S. Stall, D. Bouquin, M. Cannon, S. Edmunds, T. Faez, P. Feeney, M. Fenner, M. Friedman, G. Grenier, M. Harrison, J. Heber, A. Leary, C. MacCallum, H. Murray, E. Pastrana, K. Perry, D. Schuster, M. Stockhause, J. Yeston, "Recognizing the value of software: a software citation guide [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]," F1000Research 9:1257, 2021. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.26932.2
J. Cohen, D. S. Katz, M. Barker, N. Chue Hong, R. Haines, C. Jay, "The Four Pillars of Research Software Engineering," IEEE Software, v.38(1), pp. 97-105, 2020. 10.1109/MS.2020.2973362 (Preprint: arXiv:2002.01035 [cs.SE])
D. S. Katz, S. Druskat, R. Haines, C. Jay, A. Struck, "The State of Sustainable Research Software: Learning from the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)," Journal of Open Research Software, v.7(1), p. 11, 2019. 10.5334/jors.242
D. Sholler, K. Ram, C. Boettiger, D. S. Katz, "Enforcing public data archiving policies in academic publishing: A study of ecology journals," Big Data & Society, March 25, 2019. 10.1177/2053951719836258
D. S. Katz, K. McHenry, J. S. Lee, "Research Software Sustainability: Lessons Learned at NCSA," 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 7249-7256, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71494
L. J. Garcia Castro, M. Barker, N. Chue Hong, F. Psomopoulos, J. Harrow, D. S. Katz, M. Kuzak, P. A. Martinez, A. Via, "Software as a first-class citizen in research," First virtual workshop on Research data* management for Linked Open Science (DaMaLOS 2020), 2020. https://doi.org/10.4126/FRL01-006423290
D. S. Katz, K. McHenry, C. Reinking, R. Haines, "Research Software Development & Management in Universities: Case Studies from Manchester's RSDS Group, Illinois' NCSA, and Notre Dame's CRC," Intl. Work. on Soft. Eng. for Science (SE4Science), 2019. 10.1109/SE4Science.2019.00009 (preprint: arXiv 1903.00732)