James Cuff is currently the Director of Research Computing & Chief Technology Architect for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Prior to working at Harvard, James managed the Applied Production Systems Group at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Before moving to the US, James created the high performance computing infrastructure for the Ensembl project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. While completing his D. Phil. in protein secondary structure prediction, James worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge.

James holds a D. Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from Oxford University and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry with Industrial Experience from Manchester University.  

You can find out more about James' research group over at http://rc.fas.harvard.edu or his personal sites are over at http://blog.jcuff.net and http://about.me/jcuff  If you feel so inclined you can also follow him @jamesdotcuff