Juanjo García Mesa is a Research Software Engineer with the Research Technology Office (RTO) Computational Research Accelerator at ASU, where he supports and accelerates research through advanced computational methods, cyberinfrastructure facilitation, and high-performance computing (HPC) resources. He earned a PhD in Bioinformatics at the Cartwright lab at ASU in 2023, with research focused on codon-aware statistical sequence alignment methods.
His current work and publications span research computing, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI-enabled research support. García Mesa is active in the broader research computing community through Campus Champions leadership since 2024, service on the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) executive team since 2025, and as a member of working groups in CaRCC and the NAIRR Pilot. He has presented at local, regional, and national events on cyberinfrastructure, HPC user best practices, research computing, and applied AI for research. A summary of his publications, presentations, and professional activities is available through his ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5267-5638.