Presenter

Ramakrishnan Kannan is the group leader for discrete algorithms with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research expertise is in distributed machine learning and graph algorithms on HPC platforms and their application to scientific data with a focus on accelerating scientific discovery by reducing computation time from weeks to seconds. He was the lead for DSNAPSHOT for a COVID-19 project, which was a finalist for the esteemed ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2021, and listing Summit in third place on the Graph500 benchmark using the fewest resources; this is the first time an OLCF system has ranked in the Graph500. With more than 24 patents issued in USPTO, he was an IBM Master Inventor.