ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Pharmacological Sciences

Ms. Kovatch is the founding Associate Deanfor Scientific Computing at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,joining in October 2011. She established a scalable and sustainablehigh-performance computing infrastructure, emphasizing a collaborative approachpartnering computational experts with Sinai's scientists to tackle complexscientific questions to better diagnose and treat disease. In 2014 she wasawarded a $2M NIH grant to build a 5 Petabyte Omics Data Engine. She initiated agraduate curriculum in Scientific Computing and Biomedical Informatics.Research and development activities include improving neurosurgical virtualreality simulation environments, cloud computing and markets, and astatewide consortium to accelerate data-intensive science. She also managesteams with significant data-rich research and clinical resources: the MountSinai Data Warehouse, Research Data Services and WTC Data Center groups. Sheserves on the Board of Directors for NYSERNet and the Board of Advisors for theM.S. program in Business Analytics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joiningMount Sinai, Kovatch built and led the $75M National Institute forComputational Sciences of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, located atOak Ridge National Laboratory. She deployed the world's third fastest machinein November 2009, a 1.17 petaflop Cray XT5 for the National Science Foundationand published research on wide area parallel file systems and scheduling.