Office of the Vice President for Information Technology: Biography

Craig Stewart, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute; Associate Dean, Research Technologies; Adjunct Professor (Informatics Division, IU School of Informatics; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, IU School of Medicine; Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, IUB)

Craig Stewart is the Executive Director of the Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI), IU's flagship initiative for advanced information technology research, development, and delivery in support of research, scholarship, and artistic performances. Stewart is Associate Dean for Research Technologies, and leads the Research Technologies Division of University Information Technology Services.

The mission of the Pervasive Technology Institute is to improve quality of life in Indiana and the world by inventing, developing, deploying and delivering innovations in information technology. Stewart is particularly involved in leading cyberinfrastructure services affiliated with PTI, and PTI’s activities in economic development, training, education, and outreach. Stewart also leads the activities of PTI Service and Cyberinfrastructure Centers – the UITS Research Technologies Division and the National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS).

The Research Technologies (RT) division of University Information Technology Services (UITS), which serves the research and scholarship missions of Indiana University. Research Technologies seeks to enhance the quality and quantity of IU research by providing the best possible computation, storage, and visualization facilities and support for IU researchers. The Research Technologies division pioneers the frontiers of advanced computing as a research and development endeavor, and supports research and development through purposeful university/government/industry partnerships and extramural grants. The RT Division also supported collaboration between and among PTI, the School of Informatics and Computing, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Fine Arts, IU School of Medicine, and other academic units at Indiana University.

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support is funded by the NSF to deliver hardened versions of important open source genome analysis applications to the US scientific community, and support use of these applications on a variety of systems, including XSEDE, the IU Mason system, and the “cluster on demand” commercially delivered Rockhopper cluster owned and managed by Penguin Computing Inc. NCGAS will focus particularly on one of the most challenging problems in genome science today – assembly of genomes from next generation sequencers.

Stewart has been very active in the high performance computing for many years, including being very active in the early days of HPC applications in biology. Stewart is a past chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (2008-2009), during which time he testified about the importance of high performance computing before the House Science and Technology Committee. Most recently Stewart served as a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on CyberInfrastructure, and Chair of the ACCI Task Force on Campus Bridging (2010-2011).

Stewart has had a long career in IT at Indiana University, with extensive experience in leading and managing services to support researchers at IU, including past appointments as Director of the Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing, Research and Academic Computing, Indiana Genomics Initiative Information Technology Core; and Special Assistant for the Life Sciences, IU Office of the Vice President for Research. Stewart is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics, and also holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Medical Genetics (IU School of Medicine) and Biology (IU Bloomington). Stewart has served as a Visiting Faculty Member in Computer Science, University of Stuttgart, and as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Technische Universitaet Dresden (Germany). He has a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Biology from Wittenberg University. Most of his publications are online in the IU Scholarworks Digital Repository (scholarworks.iu.edu).

Selected Publications

Stewart, C.A., Miller, T. 2011. Economic development by the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, Pervasive Technology Labs, and the Research Technologies Division of University Information Technology Services September 1999 – June 2011: a public report. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13559
NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Campus Bridging. Final Report. March 2011. Available from: http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/taskforces/TaskForceReport_CampusBridging.pdf [Stewart chaired this task force and led writing of this report]
Dreher, P., S.C. Ahalt, G. Almes, M. Mundrane, J. Pepin and C.A. Stewart, (eds.), 2011. Campus Bridging: Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure Workshop Report. 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13194
Barnett, W., V. Welch, A. Walsh and C.A. Stewart. A Roadmap for Using NSF Cyberinfrastructure with InCommon. 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13024 or http://www.incommon.org/nsfroadmap.html
Stewart, C.A., D.S. Katz, D.L. Hart, D. Lantrip, D.S. McCaulay and R.L. Moore. Technical Report: Survey of cyberinfrastructure needs and interests of NSF-funded principal investigators. 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/9917
Stewart, C.A., S. Simms, B. Plale, M. Link, D. Hancock and G. Fox. What is Cyberinfrastructure? In: Proceedings of SIGUCCS 2010 (Norfolk, VA, 24-27 Oct, 2010). http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1878335.1878347
Stewart, C.A., M. Link, D.S. McCaulay, G. Rodgers, G. Turner, D. Hancock, P. Wang, F. Saied, M. Pierce, R. Aiken, M. Mueller, M. Jurenz, M. Lieber, J. Tillotson and B. Plale. "Implementation, performance, and science results from a 30.7 TFLOPS IBM BladeCenter cluster". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 22(2), 157-174. 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1539
Arenson A.D., L. Bakhireva, T. Chambers, C. Deximo, T. Foroud, J. Jacobson, S. Jacobson, K.L. Jones, S. Mattson, P. May, E. Moore, K. Ogle, E. Riley, L. Robinson, J. Rogers, A. Streissguth, M. Tavares, J. Urbanski, H. Yezerets, C.A. Stewart. 2007. Implementation of a distributed architecture for managing collection and dissemination of data for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders research. In: W. Dubitzky (eds): GCCB 2006, LNBI 4360. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. pp 33-46.
Stewart , C.A. 2004. Bioinformatics: transforming biomedical research and medical care. Communications of the ACM 47(11): 31-33.

Contact Information

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO
2709 E. 10th Street, Suite 301
Bloomington, IN 47408
812-325-3452
812-855-3310 (fax)
stewart@iu.edu