The University of Texas at Austin

Agenda

1) Welcome and Opening Remarks2) Update on the ICES Strategic Plan3) Status of the Moncrief Chairs4) Opportunities and Challenges

o National Strategic Computing Initiativeo Computational Medicineo Future of ICES – Challenges and Opportunitieso Succession Plan

5) Luncheon -- Faculty Lounge6) Discussion -- Wrap Up

Meeting of the O’Donnell Foundation and ICESPeter O’Donnell Building, The University of Texas at Austin

October 29, 2015

The University of Texas at Austin

1. Welcome

1.1 ICES Mission

1.2 Changes in the Reporting Structure and Administration

1.3 General Statistics

ICES Mission

Participating Departments & Centers4-Schools & Colleges 19-Academic Departments 116 - Affiliated Faculty (48-Core)

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ENGINEERINGAerospace Engineering & Engineering MechanicsBiomedical EngineeringChemical EngineeringCivil EngineeringElectrical & Computer EngineeringMechanical EngineeringPetroleum & Geosystems Engineering

McCOMBS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Department of Information, Risk, & Operations ManagementMarketing AdministrationFinance

JACKSON SCHOOL OFGEOSCIENCES

Geological SciencesInstitute for Geophysics

NATURAL SCIENCESAstronomyChemistryComputer SciencesIntegrative BiologyMathematicsMolecular BiosciencesPhysics

To provide the infrastructure and intellectual leadership for developing outstanding interdisciplinary programs in

research and graduate study in areas of computational engineering and sciences.

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ICES Reporting Structure within UT Austin

Deans Committee(Engr., Nat. Sci.)

Vice President for Research

Vice President for Research**

Provost *

TICAM ICESICES

President

1993 -2003 2003 -20152015 Onward

* Vacant **New Appointment

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ICES Statistics

20 Centers & Groups 116 Affiliated Faculty 48 Core Faculty 153 Active Research Projects $79.0 M in Research Funding 75 Doctoral Students 79 Research Staff 47 Visiting Faculty in 2014-15 25 Administrative Staff

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ICES Milestones 2014-15

Core Faculty Evaluations Nov ’14

Wrangler Deployed (TACC) Jan ’15

New Science of High Performance Computing GroupFeb ‘15 Inaugural class of O’Donnell 1st Year Fellows Mar ‘15 BoV Meets for 12th Time Mar

’15 Peter Flawn Retires from the BoV Mar

’15 GC Award Winners Announced Apr

’15 BS/MS Joint Degree Program Inaugural Class May

’15 Chameleon Deployed (TACC) Spring Sanchez Announces he is Stepping Down as VPR May

’15 Phase III POB Renovations Completed June

‘15

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ICES Milestones 2014-15

KAUST AEA Projects End Aug ‘15

Thomas Yankeelov Hired Sept ’15

New VPR Selected – Daniel Jaffe Oct ’15

ICES CMG Research Featured in new HeartFlow Productsfor Coronary Artery Disease Detection

7 Core Faculty Join ICES Industry Funding Reaches Record Level $5.1M

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2. Update of the ICES 5-Year Strategic Plan

A 5-Year Plan was released in May 2014 The Plan was reviewed by

o VPR Officeo ICES Advisory Boardo ICES Board of Visitors

The Plan was circulated to theo ICES Policy Board, BoV, IABo The UT Development Officeo ODF

The Plan includes 14 Milestones – details of which are provided below

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Level 1 Milestones - ProgressLevel 1 Milestones – Critical to short & longer-term success

1) Complete Phase I of the NIMS capital campaign to establish an endowment for graduate fellowships

(Target : $12M Endowment to support ~13 NIMS Fellows)o $2.3M Raised to dateo ~75 Individuals, Corporations, and Foundations approachedo A new initiative - soliciting donations from Program Graduates -

will be kicked off in Spring 2016

2) Acquire the remainder of the space in the POBo ICES will acquire the ECE space in the POB in Sept. 2017o We have a signed agreement with the Dean of the Cockrell School

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Level 1 Milestones - ProgressLevel 1 Milestones – Critical to short & longer-term success

3) Collaborate with TACC to secure resources for replacing aging HPC systemso Resources have been secured to replace Lonestar 4. Participants

include UT System, UT Austin, ICES, TACC, Texas A&M, …o ICES contributed $1M from OH to help purchase the system

4) Improve the effectiveness of annual reviews and develop guidelines for participation in tenure reviews of ICES core facultyo The Policy Board addressed Core Faculty tenure issues –

ICES is now more involved.

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Level 2 Milestones - ProgressLevel 2 Milestones - Critical to longer term stability & growth

5) Establish close ties with the DMSo ICES has had multiple meetings with Dean Johnston and colleagueso ICES hosted Computational Medicine Day o Joint fund raising activities have taken place – unsuccessfulo Created a Moncrief Endowed Professorship in Comp. Oncologyo ICES has set aside an additional Moncrief Chair in Comp. Medicineo A new ICES Division of Computational Medicine is evolving

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Level 2 Milestones - ProgressLevel 2 Milestones - Critical to longer term stability & growth

6) Develop a time-table for recruiting a new ICES Directoro Details provided in later slides

7) Complete the hiring of new core faculty leveraging resources from the Moncrief Endowmento Michael Sacks

Moncrief Chair I -- ODF $1M Excellence Fundo George Biros

Moncrief Chair II – ODF $1M Excellence Fundo Patrick Heimbach

Moncrief Professorship I – ODF $1M Excellence Fundo Thomas Yankeelov*

Moncrief Professorship III – ODF $1M Excellence Fund

*Outside of the Moncrief Faculty Fellowship program

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Level 2 Milestones - ProgressLevel 2 Milestones - Critical to longer term stability & growth

8) Develop a long-term funding stream to support teaching the “core” CSEM courses

(Target: $6M Endowment – faculty buyout and TA’s)

o ODF interim funding on 07/13 (of $260K * 5 years) o No endowment funds raised to date

9) Develop a plan and funding stream to enable support of all first-year CSEM students

(Target: $7 Endowment – 1st year student support (~10 students))

o ODF interim funding $920K on 08/14 (funding for 4 years)o No endowment funds raised to date

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Level 3 Milestones - Progress

Level 3 Milestones – Important for longer term growth

10) Compete successfully for one or more large-scale, center-level proposals

16 – Major Proposals Submitted in 2014-15 (>= $1M, >= 3yrs) 7 – NSF, 3 – NIH, 3 – DARPA, 1 - NASA,

1 – ONR, 1 – Other Universities 3 – Accepted, 7 – Under Review, 1 – Declined

Total Requested Funding: $43.5M

Three large scale proposals submitted in 2014-15 (>= $5M)

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Level 3 Milestones - Progress

Level 3 Milestones – Important for longer term growth

11) Establish new centers and groups in strategic areas of CS&Eo Center for Big Data Analytics – Spring 2014

A new affiliates program in Big Data in on the drawing boardo Tumor Modeling Group – Spring 2014o Science of High Performance Computing Group – Spring 2015

A new affiliates program is also being formedo ICES Division for Computational Medicine is evolving

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Level 4 Milestones - Progress

Level 4 Milestones – Important for continued growth

12) Continue to expand collaborative activities with industry partners and expand this funding streamo Industry support reached a record of $5.1M in 2014-15o Includes over $3.6M from the petroleum industryo Two new affiliates programs are in the planning stages

13) Complete Phases 2-4 of the renovations to the vacated CS space in the POB.o Phase II was completed in June 2014o Phase III was completed June 2015o Phase IV is delayed until September 2017

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Level 4 Milestones - Progress

Level 4 Milestones – Important for continued growth

14) Expand the breadth and size of the CSEM program. (Expectations are to reach ~100 in the next 5 years.)o Current enrollment in the CSEM Program is 75o The GSSC met last week to discuss expanding CSEM course

offerings into new non-core areas.o New courses areas could include computational medicine, climate

and earth sciences, …o Some of these non-core courses may be cross listed with the

relevant academic department(s).

Recruiting Process: o The Program is managed by an Oversight Committee

Chaired by the ICES Deputy Director

o Search areas are selected by the ICES IABo Target sub-committees are comprised of ICES Core Faculty and faculty from interested departments o Pervious Searches Include:

Computational Cardiovascular Sciences Computational Materials and Molecular Sciences Computational Statistics Structural Bioinformatics Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Strategic Opportunities

o Previous Successes: Michael Sacks – BME (04/2011) George Biros – ME (04/2011) Patrick Heimbach – JSG (-03/2014) Thomas Yankeelov* – BME (09/2015) *Moncrief Professorship 19

3. Status of the Moncrief Recruiting

Search Areas (6 more chairs to fill): o Current Search Areas Include:

Computational Mathematics Computational Biology Predictive Science – Uncertainty Quantification Strategic Opportunities

Several candidates have been interviewed, some in stealth mode

o Potential New Areas: Computational Medicine (exploratory visits) Computational Materials (Spring start) Computational Manufacturing Computational Energy

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Status of the Moncrief Recruiting

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Recruiting Statistics 2014-15 :o 7 top candidates identifiedo 4 interviewedo 1 invited for second visito 2 invited for a third visito 2 formal offers made – both declinedo 2 withdrew names

Status of the Moncrief Recruiting

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National Strategic Computing Initiativeo New program created by Executive Order in Julyo Main goal is to “maximize benefits of high-performance

computing research, development , and deployment”o The strategic objectives include:

Accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing system Establishing a viable path forward for future HPC systems Increasing coherence between the technology base used for modeling

and simulation and that used for data analytic computing. Increasing the capacity and capability of an enduring national HPC

ecosystem that addresses relevant factors such as networking technology, foundational algorithms and software, accessibility, …

o Planning meetings are scheduled beginning in Novembero No program funding commitments at this time

Opportunities and Challenges

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Opportunities in Computational Medicineo The DMS is beginning to gain traction – several faculty hiredo Thomas Yankeelov - Vanderbilt (starts Jan 2016)

Faculty position in BME and 10% appointment in DMS Holder of an ICES Moncrief Professorship and ODF Silver Bullet Will have a wet lab in BME or DMS Was awarded a $6M CPRIT grant this past month

o Areas of joint interest with DMS Computational Oncology Computational Cardiology Neuroscience

o ICES has dedicated at least 1 additional chair to Computational Medicine in addition to the Yankeelov professorship

Opportunities and Challenges

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Opportunities and Challenges Federal funding for basic research is declining while

competition from Europe and Asia is intensifying Unstable years for UT Administration/Systems –

declining budget, increasing bureaucracy, no Provost, new VPR, ICES moved under the Provost, …

Faculty Retention Over the past 2 years ICES has grappled with retention issues for 7 core

faculty (losing 3), and 6 research scientists

Recruiting top faculty requires resources beyond a chair or professorship. Significant startup packages including silver bullets, Stars funding for infrastructure, and dedicated space are needed.

Raising endowment funds for generic fellowships and to teach classes is extremely difficult. (It is somewhat easier to raise money to support the Grand Challenges.)

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Opportunities and Challenges – Future of ICES

ICES could expand from its current core of CSE research centers and groups to include a number of divisions focused on specific research frontiers possibly including: National Strategic Computing Initiative, Computational Medicine, Energy Science, Manufacturing and Materials, Mathematical Sciences, …

The ICES organizational structure is recognized by the UT System as an effective paradigm for conducting interdisciplinary research across the system.

ICES could possibly evolve from a research Institute into a School of Computational Engineering and Science.

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Opportunities and Challenges - ICES Director Succession Plan

Elements of the plan tentatively include – o Timetable

Oden is planning on announcing that he will step down sometime after the new Provost is selected

A search committee will be formed shortly thereaftero Scope of the Search

The search will be open to internal & external candidates The new Director must be a nationally recognized leader in

CS&E and have a strong academic recordo Oden Trajectory

Will remain an active member of ICES/ASEM (teaching, research, advising students, ...)

Will retain the Associate VP for Research title (?)

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Initiatives Requiring Additional Financial Resources

Milestone Resources Silver Bullets for Future Moncrief Hires (3 bullets) $3.0M*

NIMS Capital Campaign – Graduate Fellowships (Support for ~13 NIMS Fellowships)

$9.7M* ($600K/yr)

New ICES Division of Computational Medicine $15.0M

School of Computational Science and Engineering $????

* $2.3M of the $12M for NIMS Fellowships has already been raised Interim funding for 5 years was provided by ODF in 07/2013