People

People

Julie A. Wernert

Manager
jwernert@iu.edu
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5705-9527

Julie Wernert leads Cyberinfrastructure Assessment and Evaluation (CAE), bringing nearly three decades of practice and experience to the role. A longtime member of the NSF-funded XSEDE project’s Strategy, Planning, and Evaluation team, she concentrates her efforts on return-on-investment analysis, longitudinal studies, and other program assessment activities. Wernert also leads the biennial UITS assessment, as well as evaluation activities for the NSF-funded Jetstream and NCGAS projects. Prior to launching CAE, she led a study investigating the development and sustainability of major NSF-funded software initiatives. After many years of involvement, Wernert was be the co-general chair for PEARC 2022.

Tonya A. Miles

Senior Business Analyst
toamiles@iu.edu
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1354-5782

Tonya Miles is a member of the XSEDE Strategic Planning and Evaluation team, concentrating her efforts on XSEDE assessment activities, particularly longitudinal studies, the annual user survey, and PEARC evaluation activities, among others. Prior to joining IU, the Hoosier native and IU alumna co-founded PixelBeaker, an educational technology firm specializing in custom solutions for health care and veterinary professionals. Previously, she worked in various program leadership roles at Texas A&M University and Cornell University.

Praneeth Chityala

Praneeth Chityala

pkchitya@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-6139-622X

Praneeth Chityala is currently pursuing his M.S. in Computer Science at Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing. and Engineering. He works as a graduate assistant on the CAE team, performing data analysis, reporting, visualization, and building/monitoring survey tools. Chityala earned his B.E. in civil engineering from the National Institute of Technology Warangal (India), and prior to returning to graduate school, he worked for five years at Novartis in data analytics and data science.