Daniel B. Davidson

Daniel Davidson is the director of research computing at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR). He co-leads the Research Computing and Informatics Facility (RCIF) and leads the Center for High Performance Computing, supporting advanced computational imaging research across the institution. His work focuses on enabling scalable, efficient research through high-performance computing infrastructure, including storage systems, pipeline design, process improvement, networking, virtualization and AI-driven workloads.

Prior to joining WashU, he served as director of research computing at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, where he designed and built multiple high-performance computing systems, including Biocluster, the institute's primary platform for large-scale biological data analysis. Davidson earned degrees in electrical engineering and bioengineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.