About

Since 2017, Pandia Software has worked with private and public sector customers, including Federal Government agencies, to engineer, design, develop, and maintain innovative software technologies that facilitate scientific discovery.

The core vision of Pandia Software is to provide our customers with powerful tools to greatly reduce their “Time to Science” and to support their mission by delivering software application systems tailored to their needs. We specialize in all facets of modern, data-centric, scientific workflows including semantic web discovery and access, customizable visualization tools, intuitive user interfaces, large-scale data management, high performance computing and cloud integration, and complex, automated workflow engines. Our expertise utilizing multiple programming languages, libraries, and compilers enables Pandia Software to provide support, enhancement, and maintenance for existing software systems.

Eric J. Lingerfelt

About Eric

With an education in mathematics, physics, and astrophysics, Pandia Software President Eric Lingerfelt has almost 20 years of experience designing intuitive, user-based software to support decision-making capabilities. Before starting Pandia Software, Eric worked for Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Technical Staff Member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division and as Technical Officer for the National Science Foundation’s EarthCube Program where he led the development of several award-winning scientific software systems.

A core value in his design process is to create software solutions that are exciting and usable by customers with different levels of experience and knowledge. As a software engineer, architect, and project lead for multiple platforms, he has continuously provided the scientific research community with powerful tools tailored to answer their specific challenges while increasing accessibility and ease of use. He has an expertise in developing intuitive user interfaces, designing databases, implementing visualization technologies, leveraging cloud deployment mechanisms, and creating secure web services which seamlessly integrate with scalable data formats, high performance computing, big data analytics, and large-scale storage systems. The resulting software solutions provide highly interactive user experiences that enable scientists to generate, access, analyze, visualize, manipulate, and share complex sets of data from anywhere in the world in near real-time.

Full Curriculum Vitae

News Releases

About Gallery

“ORNL System Unites Imaging and Computing in the Search for New Materials”, ORNL Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2017

“CADES: A New Environment for Scientific Discovery”, July 13, 2017

“The Beam Software System”, April 5, 2017

“An Accelerated Pipeline to Open Materials Research”, July 21, 2016

Awards

ORNL Significant Event Award
“Given in recognition of significant contribution to the BEAM Project Designed and Developed to Integrate the Computational and Analytical Power of High Performance Computing with Advanced Instrumentation at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and the Spallation Neutron Source to Perform Near Real-time Scalable Data Analysis and Computational Modeling”, 2016.

ORNL Significant Event Award
“Given in recognition of significant contribution to the Isotopes Business System Conversion and Isotopes.gov Enhancement”, 2015.

ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics Division Most Distinguished Award for a Special Contribution
“Given in recognition of the development of the Computational Infrastructure for Nuclear Astrophysics Cloud-based Software as a Service System for Modeling Nuclear Reaction Processes”, 2014.

ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics Division Most Significant Technical Contribution Award
“Given in recognition of the development of Isotopes.gov and the National Isotope Development Center Online Management Toolkit”, 2013.

ORNL Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate Distinguished Contributor Award
“Given in recognition of the development of the Bellerophon software system”, 2011.

Current & Previous Collaborators

Eric Lingerfelt has collaborated with multiple organizations in the public and private sector including the US DOE, NSF, ORNL, EPA, ESRI, MathWorks, UCAR, and EarthCube. He has presented at international and domestic conferences include the International Conference on Computational Science, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (i.e., “Supercomputing”), Earth Science Information Partners, the American Physical Society, and the American Geophysical Union.