Presenter

Renan Francisco Santos Souza holds a Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. in Computer Science (2009-2019) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Since 2022, he has been a staff research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. From 2015 to 2022, he worked as a research scientist and software engineer at IBM Research. During his Ph.D., he was a visiting researcher at Inria, France. During his B.Sc., he spent one year at Missouri State University and interned at the SLAC National Laboratory at Stanford University. He has been active as a software engineer, researcher, and technical lead on multiple projects since 2010. He was awarded with the best M.Sc. thesis and an honorable mention for best Ph.D. thesis from SBBD, the leading data science and engineering conference in Latin America. His research and development focus on large-scale data management and AI to support the next generation of Edge–Cloud–HPC workflows.