High Performance Computing Microcredential

Based in Nova Scotia, Ross joined ACENET in 2007 and works on education, documentation, and client support in relation to high-performance computing. As a senior digital research consultant, he works with users in a range of disciplines, including chemistry, physics, biology, oceanography, neuroscience, several engineering disciplines, philosophy, and management studies. Following his doctoral and postdoctoral studies, Ross worked in software development for Hypercube Inc., makers of HyperChem for Windows, and for Molecular Mining Corporation where he helped specify some of the earliest software for analyzing high-throughput gene expression data.

Sarah, based in Nova Scotia, joined ACENET in 2023. She has a range of teaching experience and held regular teaching assistant positions. Passionate about scientific literacy, Sarah has developed teaching materials and taught programming and robotics to youth in St. John's with Brilliant Labs. She has also led professional development workshops for teachers, focusing on digital skills. Most recently, Sarah was one of the principals who developed and taught ACENET’s 100-hour online Microcredential in Advanced Computing.

Serguei joined ACENET in 2019 as a Research Consultant at UNB, with a background is in experimental and computational biophysics. Following his doctoral and postdoctoral studies in the biophysics of photosynthesis, Serguei was the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship recipient at the Technical University of Berlin, where he studied energy conversion in natural and artificial photosynthetic systems using ultrafast laser spectroscopy. More recently he was working as a research associate at Brock University with Dr. Douglas Bruce, where he was engaged in inter-disciplinary research of photosynthesis, integrating biology, computational chemistry, physics and data science. Working at Brock University, Serguei developed specialized programs for global and target analysis of time-resolved spectroscopic data, and analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories. Serguei’s research interests include molecular modelling, simulations of water and oxygen transport in proteins, and computation of the properties of cofactors in protein complexes.

• Be a Digital Nova Scotia member prior to the program start date.
• Be a legally registered business, industry association, sector council, or non-profit organization operating in Nova Scotia.

• Members are eligible for funding for up to 75% of direct training costs
• Up to a maximum of $10,000, any amount over $10,000 is cost-shared at 50%.
• The cost for this program with the funding support would be $310+HST