Michael Milligan

Michael is a computational scientist with formal training in Astrophysics and broad experience developing for a wide range of application domains. As a scientific computing consultant, he provides novel workflows and software tools for visualization, data exploration, and iterative development using supercomputing resources; conducts scientific computing, visualization, parallelization, data wrangling and informatics, reproducibility, and collaboration techniques with Python; and offers expertise in software sustainability, collaborative tools, software packaging, licensing considerations, and open source best practices. In addition, he manages the Application Development Solutions group for MSI. In this role he leads a team of talented software developers who create and maintain applications both for internal MSI operations as well as for external clients and sponsored projects. At the intersection of these roles, he leads MSI’s Interactive Supercomputing initiatives.