Dr. Brad Wheeler

 Dr. Bradley C. Wheeler is highly regarded within the state of Indiana, nationally, and internationally for fostering new models of collaboration that have changed the economics of information technology (IT) in higher education. Dr. Wheeler led the Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure Research Taskforce in 2005 with its resulting plan to support the university's goals for doubling funded research and scholarship, especially in the life sciences, an area critical to economic development in the state. Dr. Wheeler led Indiana University's collaboration with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, Purdue University, and IBM that resulted in doubling the capacity of the Big Red supercomputer. He serves on the board of directors for the Indiana University Research Technology Corporation.

Dr. Wheeler has been a pioneer in leveraged models for university collaboration. He serves in leadership roles for over $25M of shared university investments in open source software and was a co-founder of the Sakai Project and co-principal investigator on its $2.7M in grants and the $500K Open Source Portfolio project. He was a co-founder of the original Kuali Project, and now chairs the Kuali Foundation, Inc. board of directors. He has been a co-principal investigator on $4M of Kuali grants and three of the foundation