Faculty and Staff

A listing of former staff members can be found here.

Zhiwei Wang

Director of the High Performance Computing Center/Computational Biology Initiative at UTSA

Director of the RCMI Computational Systems Biology Core

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) liaison for UTSA

Contact Info:

  • Phone: 210-458-7078
  • Office:
    Biotechnology, Science, and Engineering Building
    UTSA 1604 Campus
    Room 3.112

  • Email: zwang@cs.utsa.edu

Carolina B. Livi, Ph.D.

Dr. Livi has joined the computational biology initiative as the first liaison working in the facility. She is appointed in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UTHSCSA. She has a doctorate in Developmental Biology from Caltech, and her work focuses on analysis of transcriptional regulation. She has computational experience with annotation of cis-regulatory regions using sequence analysis tools and building realistic gene regulatory networks from gene expression data.

Carolina B. Livi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor/Research
Department of Molecular Medicine &
Department Epidemiology and Biostatistics - UTHSCSA
CBI Liaison
Department of Biology - UTSA

livi@uthscsa.edu
(210) 567-7237 - phone
(210) 567 7772 - fax

pubmed publications

David Noriega

CBI/CSBC Information Technology Associate II
Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from UTSA
System Administrator
Linux Professional
HPC Cluster Engineer

Contact Info:

  • Phone: 210-458-7100
  • After Hours Phone: 210-338-0366
  • Office:
    Biotechnology, Science, and Engineering Building
    UTSA 1604 Campus
    Room 3.114

  • Email: tsk133 at my dot utsa dot edu

Nelson Ramirez

CBI/CSBC Research Software Developer
Specializing in parallel programming
C/C++/MATLAB/Java, Systems Programming, GPU Computing

Contact Info:

  • Phone: 210-458-7100
  • Office:
    Biotechnology, Science, and Engineering Building
    UTSA 1604 Campus
    Room 3.114

  • Email: Nelson dot Ramirez at utsa dot edu

Select Publications and Patents:

Jean Michel Lehker

CBI/CSBC System Administrator Assistant
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from UTSA
Web Developer

Currently working towards a Master of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Computer and Information Security.