David Cyrille

David G. Cyrille is Assistant Vice President and Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) at Stony Brook University, where he leads the Research Computing, Informatics, and Innovation (RCI²) organization and is helping shape the next generation of Stony Brook's research enterprise. Working across the University, Stony Brook University Hospital, and the academic medical center, he is building a unified research technology ecosystem that brings together advanced computing, artificial intelligence, data, cybersecurity, and clinical informatics. As the bridge between information technology and the research community, he ensures that compliance and data governance serve as a foundation for collaboration rather than a barrier to it, so that teams of scientists, clinicians, and data experts across campus and hospital can work together with confidence.

With over 30 years in research IT, David directs a core team of roughly 25 whose platforms support a research portfolio exceeding $1.04 billion in awards, 4,050+ researchers, and more than 1,800 publications a year. He oversees the university's flagship research systems, including the SeaWulf HPC cluster, for which he is Co-Principal Investigator on an NSF Major Research Instrumentation award, the NVWulf AI/GPU platform delivering 201 PFLOP/s of peak capacity, and ClinWulf, the institution's first HIPAA-aligned HPC cluster, and he leads the deployment of its NIST 800-171 compliant environment for controlled unclassified information. His organization also provides the clinical research platforms, including REDCap, OnCore, and TriNetX, and the governed access to electronic health record data that connect the hospital and medical center to the research mission.

Under his leadership, Stony Brook earned its inaugural NSF Service Provider designation through the deployment of the NSF-funded Ookami system, and he is now advancing the university's pending NSF Track-1 AMA27 system. Throughout, his focus has remained constant: building the secure, powerful infrastructure that lets researchers move from discovery to translation and, ultimately, to patient impact.