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Los Angeles, CA-based University of California, Los Angeles has Promoted Jim Davis as Chief Academic Technology Officer
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
About the Person
Jim Davis is the Associate Vice Chancellor - Information Technology and a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCLA. In his Associate Vice Chancellor position, Jim has broad responsibility for university-wide technology planning and for coordinating implementation. He coordinates the IT planning, policy setting, prioritization and decision-making processes and is responsible for the strategic deployment of the academic and administrative operations, services and resources in support of the university mission and its central and distributed technology requirements. Prior to Jim’s appointment, he served as Chief Information Officer, Associate Provost for Information Technology, and Director of University Technology Services at Ohio State University. At Ohio State, he had management responsibility for institutional IT planning, instructional technology, policy, faculty/staff/student IT advisory committees, and all central infrastructure and support services for both academic and administrative applications. Jim is currently Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and is a member of University of California’s Information Technology Leadership Council, UCLA’s Anderson School IS Associates Executive Board, the Global Education Learning Community Advisory Board facilitated by Sun Microsystems, and Apple’s University Education Forum. Prior to coming to UCLA, he worked extensively with the Ohio Supercomputer Center, the Ohio Academic and Research Network (OARnet), the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Big10), and Internet2 in developing high performance computing, network, research, and educational initiatives. In the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCLA, Jim’s research is in the area of data analysis, decision support, and intelligent systems in process operations and design. With over 20 years experience in technology-based engineering research and application, he has been involved with research, development and deployment of information technology solutions in a wide variety of applications. Jim is a member of the Executive Committee of the Computer and Systems Technology Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Executive Board of the Abnormal Situation Management Consortium comprised of industry and university members. Within AIChE he is founding co-director of the ‘Information Technology in Chemical Engineering’ divisional program area. Jim recently stepped down after 15 years on the Board of CACHE (Computer Aids in Chemical Engineering), a non-profit corporation comprised of academic and industrial trustees. Jim has published and consulted extensively in the areas of knowledge-based systems and neural networks and has conducted numerous short courses and professional training workshops both nationally and internationally. He has worked or consulted on decision support applications in many process and manufacturing companies. Jim comes to UCLA with several years’ industrial experience at Amoco Chemicals Corporation and Argonne National Laboratory. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University.
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