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Peter M. Siegel is the vice provost and chief information officer (CIO) for information and educational technology at the University of California, Davis, with primary responsibilities for research computing, academic, and administrative computing. As vice provost and CIO, Siegel is responsible for providing the leadership necessary to assure the effective coordination and strategic deployment of information and educational technology to the campus's academic and administrative operations. He also is responsible for coordinating technology between the Davis campus and the UC Davis Health System. To meet these goals, Vice Provost Siegel works very closely with several advisory groups and the community at large – all key components of the campus IT governance structure. Siegel oversees the myriad forms of information technology used throughout the campus, including classroom and educational technologies, cyber-safety, computing systems and data, cyber-infrastructure, voice and video communication services. The position is part of the chancellor's cabinet, and reports to both the chancellor and provost. Throughout his career, Siegel has been involved in both national and state professional organizations, as well as in nationally recognized technology partnerships with other major research universities. He is a member of the Educause-Internet2 Security Task Force Executive Committee, and is working with the American Council on Education and Educause on security policy issues. He serves on the Research Computing committee of CENIC (California) and has been active with state networks in Illinois, Iowa, as well as New York, where he was for many years on the Board of Directors of NYSERNet. He speaks regularly on computer privacy and security issues, collaboration technologies, the role of technology planning in the academy, and cyberinfrastructure in support of research. Prior to joining UC Davis in 2006, Siegel was the CIO at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for six years. While there, he reorganized that campus's central computing, educational technologies, classroom technologies, computer labs, data and voice communications units into an integrated information technologies and educational services unit. During this time, Siegel was an active participant with the other CIC (“Big 10 plus”) CIOs in building a shared network infrastructure in the Midwest. Siegel also served as director of Academic Information Technology at the Iowa State University of Science and Technology; and spent more than 25 years at Cornell University in positions of increasing responsibility, including serving as director of the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility and executive director of the Cornell Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering, a national high-performance computing resource. Siegel earned a master's degree in linguistics from Cornell University, where he also pursued doctoral studies. He also holds both master's and bachelor's degrees from the University of Hawaii.
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