Presenter

Rao joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 1993 and is currently a Corporate Fellow. He received a B.Tech. (1982) from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India; an ME (1984) from the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; and a PhD (1988) in computer science from Louisiana State University. His research areas include high performance and quantum networking, information fusion, machine learning, and federations of science instruments. He is the principal investigator of the DOE PiQSci (Performance Integrated Quantum Scalable Internet) project. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award and the 2014 R&D 100 Award.