Chadalapaka UC Tech award 2023

Citation

UC Tech News, University of California Office of the President (UCOP). “Sarvani Chadalapaka UC Merced: UC Tech Award Program DEI Leadership 2023 silver award winner.” March 28, 2024. https://uctechnews.ucop.edu/sarvani-chadalapaka-uc-merced-uc-tech-award-program-dei-leadership-2023-silver-award-winner/. Read 2026-10-26.

Sarvani Chadalapaka won the 2023 UC Tech Awards diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) leadership silver award. The post quotes her nomination by Nick Dugan, UC Merced CIO.
The nomination says she grew the researchers on UC Merced’s core HPC resources “from 40 to 600” in four years.

UC Tech News is the UC system’s information technology (IT) news site. The post is an excerpt from a nomination letter.

She is “director of Cyberinfrastructure and Research Technologies at UC Merced”. (first paragraph)
“UC Merced serves a highly diverse population – over 70% of our students are first generation, and more than 80% are from historically under-represented groups.” (Project Description)
“In just four years, she was able to increase the number of researchers using core HPC resources from 40 to 600, including a 900% increase during her first year.” (Project Description)
She “created a worldwide HPC mentorship program” with Women in HPC. It “operates across five continents, over 25 countries, and with over 60 volunteers.” (Project Description)
She was DEI Co-Chair of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, and worked for “on-site childcare and dependent care grants”. (Project Description)
She received the Internet2 Inclusivity Initiative Scholarship Award in 2017, and later co-chaired its steering committee. (Project Description)
She works to establish “a Data Science and Computing degree in UC Merced’s School of Natural Sciences.” (Project Description)

A nomination letter.

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The “40 to 600” figure has no years.

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