Presenter

Kyle Chard is a research associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He also holds a joint appointment at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD in computer science from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 2011. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE, received the IEEE TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in HPC, was part of the Globus team that won an R&D100 award, and received the New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship. He co-leads the Globus Labs research group, which focuses on a broad range of research problems in data-intensive computing and research data management.