Kate Evans
Director, Office Of Institutional Strategic Planning
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolKate Evans is a strategic science leader with 14 years of experience translating deep technical expertise in atmospheric and computational science into lab- and division-level strategy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She currently directs the Office of Institutional Strategic Planning, shaping research investment priorities and cross-institutional partnerships to amplify ORNL’s scientific impact. Previously she led a 160-person Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, overseeing HPC, machine learning, data systems, and multiscale modeling efforts across climate, materials, and energy domains. Her research background—rooted in a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science and hands-on work in high-resolution climate and ice-sheet modeling—gives her rare credibility in both technical validation and strategic planning. Colleagues rely on her to bridge rigorous verification-and-validation practice with pragmatic program development, and she maintains an active academic role advising interdisciplinary doctoral students. Based in Oak Ridge, TN, she combines deep domain knowledge with institutional leadership to drive high-impact, scalable science.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Ph.D., Atmospheric Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Haverford College
Github Skills (22)
energy10
climate-science10
validation9
verification9
fortran9
snl-applications9
earth9
renewable-energy9
climate-change9
climate-model8
testing8
exascale7
ice7
modeling6
infrastructure4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DOE-ProSPect/E3SM
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
earthearth-system-modelenergyexascale
LIVVkit/LIVVkit
Aug 2013 - May 2015
Land Ice Verification & Validation Toolkit
Contributions:31 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 9 months
ice-sheet-modelsvalidationtestingverificationice
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