Dr. Muñoz is the acting director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. He has been working in federal services for more than 35 years. Muñoz has also been the Deputy Director for NSF for 4 years. He is also the co-chair of the federal government’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development High-End Computing Interagency Working Group. He has held roles in several Super Computing conferences, has written several publications on high performance computing, and has served on different committees and study groups in science and technology.
He is also a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. Prior to his role as acting director, Dr. Muñoz was the Director of the Simulation and Computer Science Office in the U.S Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Agency’s Information Technology Office. Additionally, he worked at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center doing research for over 20 years. Dr. Muñoz is a graduate of University of Connecticut where he earned a Ph. D. in Computer Science.