Lyndon Coghill appointed assistant vice president for academic IT and research support
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Following a national search, Lyndon Coghill has been appointed as the inaugural assistant vice president for academic IT and research support at Kansas State University, effective May 11.
In this new role, Coghill will work closely with Thomas Bunton, associate vice president and chief information officer for the Division of Information Technology. He will enhance K-State's reputation as a leader in academic and research IT. He will lead a high-performing team of IT directors organized in an affinity-based model across eleven campus units. Coghill will oversee all operational aspects and future developments of the technologies used in K-State's academic, classroom and research environments on all three campuses.
"Lyndon has many years of experience in managing, developing and optimizing research technology and data systems," Bunton said. "He will provide insights and expertise in academic technology and research strategies, advising and supporting senior executive leadership. His guidance will help shape the future of academic and research technologies at K-State."
Coghill joined K-State in December 2024 as the director of research technology and intelligence for the Office of the Vice President for Research. In that capacity, he led the modernization and optimization of technology business processes, positively impacting seven specialized research operational units.
Before joining K-State, Coghill served as the director of informatics and was core faculty in the Institute for Data Science and Informatics and the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri. He led a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, engineers and administrators, overseeing the secure and efficient processing, analysis and dissemination of data to meet the informatics needs of researchers and scientists.
Prior to that, Coghill was a research data scientist at Louisiana State University in the Center for Computation and Technology, where he co-led grant proposals to secure critical funding for high-performance computing and GPU clusters. This effort significantly enhanced the university's research infrastructure and computational capabilities, supporting advanced, data-intensive scientific research.
Coghill earned his doctorate in biology from the University of New Orleans and has completed postdoctoral fellowships in computational biology from Louisiana State University and the NSF/Chicago Field Museum.