ISS26
- Boulder, CO and Virtual
Are you attending the ISS26 conference? Join Monday’s session:
Date: April 6, 2026 3:10 PM
Speaker: Lee Liming
Globus Auth: Federated Identity and Access Management for Scientific AI Systems
Globus Auth is the cornerstone authentication and authorization service for the Globus data management ecosystem, designed and operated by the University of Chicago to address the evolving needs of the global research community. Over the past decade, our team has continually enhanced Globus Auth, prioritizing features that facilitate multi-institutional scientific collaborations with the robust assurance controls necessary for secure scientific environments.
In response to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs), and autonomous agent workflows, we have expanded Globus Auth to support secure API access, non-human agents, and self-service configuration. This ensures that AI-driven scientific discovery software can maintain the strict security requirements demanded by modern research, while still being flexible and scalable for collaborative computational science.
The talk will focus on Globus Auth’s role in the newly-launched Genesis Mission: a national effort to drive scientific discovery, national security, and energy innovation through AI and high-performance computing. Specifically, we will show how modern, AI-driven discovery applications are already using Globus Auth to gain secure access to data and computational resources provided by national facilities