James Pepin

Jim Pepin is a Chief Technology Officer at USC's Information Services Division (ISD) and is Director of the center for High Performance Computing and Communications, a joint center at ISI and ISD. He started working full-time for USC in 1972 and implemented NCP and IP solutions on the ARPAnet. He was a member of several Network Working Groups in the early 1970s. He was director of the Engineering Computer Lab and was architect of the central engineering school facilities, including networking and timesharing systems. Starting in 1987 he was Executive Director of University Computing Services (UCS). UCS provided campus wide support for all networking and central academic computing services. In 1999-2003, he joined ISI and was responsible for direction in High Performance Network infrastructure for the USC-ISD and USC-ISI. From 2004 on he has been responsbile for the design and implementation of high performance networks while being director of the center for High Perforamnce Computing and Communications.