Presenter

Charlie Catlett is a Senior Computer Scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, and a Visiting Scientist at the University of Chicago’s Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. His research focuses on building cyberinfrastructure to embed edge-AI in urban, environmental, and emergency sensing and response settings. He was founding chair of Grid Forum / Global Grid Forum from 1999-2005 and director of NSF’s TeraGrid initiative from 2004-2007. Charlie was part of the team that established the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in 1985, leading efforts there including the deployment and operation of the NSFNET backbone network, an early component of the Internet, and serving as Chief Technology Officer prior to joining Argonne and UChicago in 2000. He was one of GovTech magazine’s “25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers” of 2016 and in 2019 received the Argonne Board of Governors Distinguished Performer award. Charlie is a Computer Engineering graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.