Rick Stevens is a Professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of Computer Science, a Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute and Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Life Science at Argonne National Laboratory. Stevens is the Director of Argonne’s research initiatives in petascale computing and systems biology and leads an NIH Bioinformatics Research Center for Microbial Pathogens and an NSF TeraGrid Life Science Gateway Project, which is developing high-throughput tools for large-scale biological data analysis. He has been interested in combining the frontiers of computing and biology for over twenty years.