Presenter

Renan Francisco Santos Souza holds a Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc (2009-2019) in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Since 2022, he has been a staff research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Before that (2015-2022), he was a research scientist and software engineer at IBM Research. He has been working as a software engineer, researcher, and tech lead on several projects since 2010. During his B.Sc., he spent a year at Missouri State University and was an intern at Stanford University in the SLAC National Laboratory. During his Ph.D., he was a visiting researcher at Inria, France. He received the best M.Sc. thesis and honored mention for the best Ph.D. thesis awards from SBBD, the main conference on data science in Latin America. He researches large-scale data management techniques to support the evolution of Artificial Intelligence systems in HPC and cloud.