Director
ITS: Research Computing
Infrastructure
Research Interests:
Administration, Management, and Leadership
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Data Science
Health Information Technology
Education
Ph.D in Applied Data Science, Dec 2025, at the Luddy School at Indiana University Indianapolis.
BS, Physics, 2005, Purdue University Indianapolis
Biography
Robert Quick Director of Research Computing Infrastructure, University of Kentucky
Robert Quick is the Director of Research Computing Infrastructure at the University of Kentucky. He has more than 25 years of experience in research cyberinfrastructure, with significant contributions to high-profile scientific projects including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle detectors and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
Prior to joining UK, Rob served as Director of the Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center (CIRC) at Indiana University’s Pervasive Technology Institute. He acted as operations officer for the Open Science Grid, a high-throughput computing resource delivering millions of CPU and GPU hours weekly to US-based researchers. He also designed and implemented several bioinformatics science gateways covering drug discovery, protein docking, and gene co-expression networking.
Rob is deeply involved in national and international cyberinfrastructure and data-sharing initiatives. He serves as a funded member of the ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support) operations team and co-chairs the Technical Advisory Board of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international organization dedicated to promoting research data sharing across domain and political borders. His RDA involvement since 2014 includes co-chairing the CODATA/RDA Schools for Research Data Science Interest Group and the Data Fabric Interest Group.
At the Purkayastha lab, Rob worked on validating and building infrastructure to support the reuse of machine learning and AI algorithms through containers and metadata standards.
He has also developed research data science curriculum and delivered course material to target early career researchers in low- and middle-income countries as part of the Schools of Research Data Science (SoRDS) program.
Current Projects
- A High Throughput Science Gateway for the Event Horizon Telescope (NSF #2324672)
- Building a Collaboration Infrastructure: CyberWater2 — A Sustainable Data/Model Integration Framework (NSF #2209835)
- COre National Ecosystem for CyberinfrasTructure (CONECT) (NSF #2138307)
- SGX3 – A Center of Excellence to Extend Access, Expand the Community, and Exemplify Good Practices for CI Through Science Gateways (NSF# 2231406)