On June 7, 2023, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt announced that Jim Davis, vice provost for information technology and head of UCLA’s Office of Advance Research Computing (OARC), will step down from his role on June 30, 2023.
OARC will join the Office of Research and Creative Activities led by Vice Chancellor Roger Wakimoto. OARC’s transition into the Office of Research & Creative Activities is a natural progression as it makes it possible for OARC to better evolve and align with DataX and other data-centered initiatives as well as develop innovative and sustainable data and technology solutions for research in partnership with faculty and campus units.
In the future, Jim Davis will serve as a faculty research advisor within ORCA, continue as a Principal Investigator of CESMII, and greater involvement in federal initiatives on AI, the national Manufacturing USA institutes and environmental sustainability projects.
To read highlights of Jim’s two decades of distinguished leadership at UCLA, please see the BruinPost.
