Presenter

Suren Byna is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Ohio State University. He is also a Visiting Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Prior to joining OSU, he was a Senior Scientist in the Scientific Data Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). His research interests are in scalable scientific data management, particularly focusing on optimizing parallel I/O and on developing systems for managing scientific data. He led the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) funded ExaHDF5 and ExaIO projects to their successful completion. He is currently leading Department of Energy (DOE) ASCR funded object-centric data management systems (Proactive Data Containers - PDC) and experimental and observational data management (EOD-HDF5) projects. At OSU, he is leading the Securing Self-Describing Data Libraries (S2-D2) and co-leading Large-Scale Declarative Analytics projects funded by NSF, both focusing on developing HDF5 technologies.