Ilkay Altintas has been appointed Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, effective immediately. Altintas, who joined SDSC in 2001, will lead the strategic coordination of all computational data science activities at SDSC while overseeing application-based solutions and their related technologies. Altintas was also named head of SDSC’s Cyberinfrastructure Research, Education, and Development division, better known as CI-RED. CI-RED encompasses some 85 researchers at SDSC involved in a vast array of projects that involve technological and scientific research and deployment. Subject areas include bioinformatics, computational chemistry, data integration, geophysics, oceanography, 3D modeling, analysis and statistics, scientific workflows, visualization, and more. In addition to being an assistant research scientist at SDSC and a lecturer in computer science and engineering, Altintas also directs the Workflows for Data Science (WorDS) Center of Excellence, which she envisioned and created in 2014 to help train researchers in the use of scientific workflows. To read more, please visit http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR20150813_altintas.html.