Viswanath Nandigam is the associate director for the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Development Lab at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD. He is also the principal investigator of the NSF funded OpenTopography project and a co-investigator on two NASA funded projects. His research interests include scientific data acquisition and management, data intensive application development, parallel and federated database systems and information integration. He received his MS degree in Computer Science from San Diego State University.