Dr. Brian O’Connor joined the Broad in March of 2020 as a Principal Investigator in the Data Sciences Platform (DSP). He works on a wide variety of cloud compute and interoperability projects in the DSP including Terra, NCI's Cancer Data Aggregator, and NHGRI's AnVIL. Previously he held the position of Director of the Computational Genomics Platform group at the UCSC Genomics Institute. There he focused on the development and deployment of large-scale, cloud-based systems for analyzing genomic data. These included Dockstore, a platform for sharing tools and workflows, Redwood, a cloud data storage system, and Boardwalk, a web-based portal for data exploration. Prior to his role at UCSC, Dr. O’Connor worked at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) where his previous projects included leading the technical implementation of cloud-based analysis systems for the PanCancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) effort, the creation of the Dockstore project, and he managed the development of the International Cancer Genome Consortium’s Data Portal. Dr. O’Connor is also the co-chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Cloud Work Stream where he works on cloud standards for the genomics community.