Nirav Merchant

Nirav Merchant is the Co-PI for NSF CyVerse a national-scale Cyberinfrastructure for life sciences and NSF Jetstream the first user-friendly, scalable cloud environment for NSF XSEDE.

Over the last two decades, his research has been directed towards developing scalable computational platforms for supporting open science and open innovation, with an emphasis on improving research productivity for geographically distributed interdisciplinary teams. 

His interests include data science literacy, large-scale data management platforms, data delivery technologies, managed sensor and mobile platforms for health interventions, workforce development, and project-based learning.