Author

Dr. Pavan Balaji is a Principal Research Scientist and Technical Lead at Meta. He was previously a Senior Computer Scientist and Group Lead at Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests include parallel programming models and runtime systems for communication and I/O on extreme-scale supercomputing systems, modern system architecture, cloud computing systems, data-intensive computing, deep learning, and big-data sciences. He has more than 200 publications in these areas and has delivered more than 200 talks and tutorials at various conferences and research institutes. He is a recipient of several awards including the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career) in 2015; TEDxMidwest Emerging Leader award in 2013; U.S. Department of Energy Early Career award in 2012; Crain's Chicago 40 under 40 award in 2012; and best paper awards at many conferences.