Author

Ashok Srinivasan is a Program Director in the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation and is involved in the CyberTraining, CSSI, PPoSS, and OAC Core programs. Srinivasan has a permanent position as a Professor of Computer Science and the William Nystul Eminent Scholar Chair at the University of West Florida and is a Fulbright Fellow. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and subsequently worked at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, UCSB, and Florida State University. Srinivasan’s research interests focus on the applications of high performance computing to science and public health policy. Results of his research to protect public health, especially during air travel, have been highlighted in over 300 news outlets around the world and cited in testimony to the US Congress.