ERIS provides information services and technologies that enable and drive research and innovation across the academic medical centers of Mass General Brigham (MGB). ERIS is composed of service-oriented teams that directly support and collaborate with researchers. ERIS provides applications, processes and resources that support the basic, biomedical and clinical research missions across the MGB System.
ERIS provides the interface for the research community to MGB Information Systems (IS). We provide advocacy and guidance on behalf of research to the many enterprise projects and consults that involve Information Security, ITS, Network Engineering, Contracts, Security and other corporate departments. We help define, test and deliver services provided by IS that affect Research.
Leadership Team
Mike Oates, Senior Director of Research Computing and AI
Mike leads the talented members of ERIS who identify, develop and provide the technology and essential services needed to enable the forefront of research and innovation for the Mass General Brigham and its Academic Medical Centers.
Alissa Scharf
Manager - Research Computing Core
Alissa manages the Research Computing Core, which includes a team of Engineers, Developers and Systems Administrators. The Core is a fee-for-service group that offers consulting, discounted software licenses and storage services for your research needs.
Eloy Toscano
Director, Enterprise Data, Analytics & High Performance Computing Infrastructure
Kevin Mullins
Manager – IaaS
Kevin is responsible for developing and delivering enterprise-wide IT services for the research community that includes Linux, Windows and Storage support, along with DIPR and Database hosting for the research community.
Nick Yale
Manager – ERIS Research IS Site Teams
Nick manages the site teams located at BWH, MGH & MCL along with managing site specific & Enterprise projects that involve the unmanaged devices.
ERIS works on several Enterprise projects to bring multiple types of health care data into secure environments and platforms for research and analysis. Learn more about these projects.
Eloy Toscano
Director, Enterprise Data, Analytics & High Performance Computing Infrastructure
Edmund Ng
Manager, Scientific Computing
Alexsey Sapozhnikov
Systems Engineer
Christine Wasunna
Christine will facilitate the integration of existing research platforms with the Data Enclave, analyze and document customer requirements & develop seamless solutions for leveraging the Data Enclave environment.
Herbert Lin
Sr. System Architect & Big Data Solutions SME
Rodrigo Dominguez
Infrastructure Engineer
Rodrigo provides infrastructure support for the Enterprise Data Analytics Platform as well as the day-to-day operation of the ERISTwo Linux Cluster involving hardware, networking, system configuration and storage.
Vinh Nguyen
Sr. System Engineer & VDI SME
Sakhir Sohail
The site teams at MGH, BWH (RICS), Spaulding & McLean support all non-standard devices including Macs, Apple products, Linux and PCs in the environment. This team also consults with and connects the research communities directly with ERIS and Digital services.
Nick Yale
Manager
Ken Dao
Network Administrator 1 – MCL
Ken provides advanced technical and customer support for Macintosh, Windows, and mobile (iOS and Android) to end-users and research departments at McLean.
John Weng
Network Administration Specialist – BWH
In addition to providing general end-user technical support, John manages the web hosting services provided by ERIS and contributes to additional special projects that impact BWH researchers.
Randy Chacon
Network Administrator 1 – MCL
Randolph helps users with their computer problems and software issues at McLean Hospital.
This team provides storage, database, hosted solutions and the Discovery Informatics Platform for Research (DIPR) to meet research needs. This service provides IT power to researchers without the maintenance burden. Learn more about these services.
Kevin Mullins
Manager
Bala Sravanam
Systems Engineer
Michael Rogal
Senior Project Specialist
Phurpa Thapa
Jr. Systems Analyst
Ramanujam Maram
Database Administrator
Raj oversees our Oracle, MYSQL, MS SQL, and Postgres databases. Raj joins ERIS with a tremendous amount of experience as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator.
Rolf Fabre
Server Engineer
Tom Faiano
Systems Engineer II
The Research Computing Core offers fee-for-service dedicated services including consultation, custom systems programming and database development, desktop support and software licenses for the teaching hospitals of Mass General Brigham. Learn more about these services.
Mission Statement
The ERIS Core Facility provides cost-effective consultation and technical services to advance world-class medical research. Our goal is to facilitate research breakthroughs through collaborative approaches that are economically structured for research finances.
Alissa Scharf
Manager
Amanda Gardner
Systems Designer
Amanda develops websites and web applications for the Mass General Brigham research community.
Chris Mow
Senior Systems Developer
Chris develops custom software applications, plug-ins, and automated systems for Mass General Brigham research labs on a fee-for-service basis.
Kevin Kammer
Project Analyst
ERIS provides computational resources and scientific computing support to the research community at Mass General Brigham (MGB) hospitals. Our high-performance analysis servers, compute clusters and storage are relied upon daily for data processing and analysis by research groups across the organization. Learn more about these services.
Edmund supports the Scientific Computing Linux Clusters platform. He also provides assistance to all researchers to develop their projects in our platforms.
Dmytro Shyshlov
Application Specialist
Dima works with the ERIS team to continue to move the Scientific Computing environments forward.
Henry Paik
Data Analytics Analyst
Henry is in charge of data circulation for BWH Pathology as well as leading the R User Group.
Jacques Fatal
HPC System Engineer
Jacques works with the ERIS team to continue to move the Scientific Computing environments forward.
Richard Kenny
Application Specialist
Tam Nguyen
HPC Infrastructure Engineer
Tam works with the ERIS team to upgrade our Scientific Computing cluster and provide exceptional support to the users.
Saquib Ali
Jamie Salazar