Presenter

Bogdan Nicolae is a computer scientist with Argonne National Laboratory and a research professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology (both in Chicago, USA). He specializes in scalable storage, data management, and fault tolerance for large-scale distributed systems, in particular at the intersection of high performance computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence. His areas of interest include checkpoint-restart, state capture and migration, data and metadata decentralization and high availability, concurrency control in data management, multi-versioning and historic access, declarative data models, and live migration, and he has authored numerous papers on these subjects. Bogdan is a regular PC member and participates in the organization of major international conferences around parallel and distributed systems (SC, IPDPS, HPDC, CCGrid, CLUSTER, ICS, HIPC, ICDCS, ICPP, EuroPar, EuroMPI, etc.). He is also a regular reviewer for journals including TPDS, JPDC, FGCS, PARCO, TC, TCC, and IJHPCA.