David Schissel is the manager of the Data Analysis Applications Group at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility and Director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory for General Atomics with 22 years of experience in plasma physics research. He has over 85 fusion related publications from plasma confinement research to advanced computer science research. For the DIII-D National Fusion Facility he is responsible for coordinating computer hardware and software resources to support the distributed scientific staff's data analysis requirements. As the principal investigator of the SciDAC funded National Fusion Collaboratory Project, he is responsible for coordinating advanced computer science research among seven distinct institutions that is developing a persistent collaboration infrastructure to transform fusion research. He is also a PI on a DOE funded QoS Network Project that is investigating WAN data analysis for tokamak experiments where guaranteed data throughput is required in a time critical environment. As a principal investigator for basic confinement studies on the DIII-D tokamak, he has been responsible for creating and implementing experimental proposals to study the global energy confinement and local energy transport properties of neutral beam heated fusion plasmas. He was actively involved in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) design as a member of the ITER H-mode confinement research team, has been a visiting scientist at the JET Joint Undertaking Tokamak (Culham Laboratory) in the United Kingdom and at Tore Supra Tokamak (Cadarache Laboratory) in France. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.