Presenter

Venkatesh Kannan works as the Associate Director at the Irish Centre of High-End Computing (ICHEC), the national centre for high-performance computing (HPC) in Ireland, whose core mission is to deliver HPC-related capabilities and expertise to Higher Education Institutions, enterprises and public sector organisations on behalf of the Irish State.

At ICHEC, Venkatesh is responsible for defining and implementing the technological vision, strategy and roadmap of the Centre’s activities. This includes developing partnerships with domestic and international organisations in academia, industry and the public sector to undertake publicly and commercially funded computation-driven R&D and projects. Venkatesh also manages and coordinates the Centre’s technical activities with all members of staff and computational scientists across offices in Dublin and Galway.

ICHEC focuses on HPC and its applications to a wide range of areas, including high-performance data analytics (HPDA), big data management, artificial intelligence, optimisation of computational workflows and applications on a variety of compute platforms including extreme-scale HPC clusters, edge computing devices and quantum computing platforms. These are applied to a wide range of application domains such as environmental sciences, remote sensing, digital healthcare and digital twins.

Venkatesh also represents ICHEC in a number of Irish and European Union programmes, activities and projects.