Michael J. Becich named interim co-director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Michael J. Becich, associate vice chancellor for informatics in the health sciences at Pitt and chair of the department of biomedical informatics, will serve as interim co-director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a Pitt-Carnegie Mellon University joint initiative. He will be joined by Curtis Meyer, professor of physics and associate dean of research for the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon.

The changes are a result of Shawn Brown announcing his resignation from the University. Brown served as Pitt’s vice chancellor for research computing and head of the PSC since 2019.

Former dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences N. John Cooper has agreed to return to Pitt to serve as interim vice chancellor for research computing to fill the other half of Brown’s role. Cooper has also served as deputy vice chancellor for research at Pitt.