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Davis, CA-based University of California Davis Retired Peter M. Siegel as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
UC Davis is a global community of individuals united to better humanity and our natural world while seeking solutions to some of our most pressing challenges. Located near the California state capital, UC Davis has more than 34,000 students, and the full-time equivalent of 4,100 faculty and other academics and 17,400 staff. The campus has an annual research budget of over $750 million, a comprehensive health system and about two dozen specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and 99 undergraduate majors in four colleges and six professional schools.
About the Person
Peter M. Siegel is the chief information officer and vice provost for information and educational technology at the University of California, Davis, with primary responsibilities for research, academic and administrative computing.
As vice provost and CIO, Siegel is responsible for providing the leadership necessary to assure the effective coordination, oversight, and strategic deployment of information and educational technologies to the campus's academic and administrative operations. He also is responsible for coordinating technology between the Davis campus and the UC Davis Health System. To meet these goals, Vice Provost Siegel works very closely with several advisory groups and the community at large - all key components of the campus IT governance structure.
Prior to joining UC Davis in 2006, Siegel held leadership positions at other institutions, including the Universities of Illinois (as CIO) and Iowa State (as Director of Academic Computing), as well as 23 years at Cornell University in increasingly complex roles, including Director of the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility (an NSF National Center) and Executive Director of the Cornell Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering; Siegel was a founding member of the Center under Nobel Laureate Kenneth G. Wilson.
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