Presenter

Suren Byna is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Ohio State University (OSU). He is also a Visiting Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Prior to joining OSU, he was a Senior Scientist in the Scientific Data Division at LBNL. His research interests are in scalable scientific data management, particularly focusing on optimizing parallel I/O and on developing systems for managing scientific data. He led the Exascale Computing Project (ECP)-funded ExaHDF5 and ExaIO projects to their successful completion. He is currently leading Department of Energy (DOE) ASCR-funded object-centric data management systems (Proactive Data Containers - PDC) and experimental and observational data management (EOD-HDF5) projects. At OSU, he is leading the Securing Self-Describing Data Libraries (S2-D2) and co-leading Large-Scale Declarative Analytics projects funded by NSF, both focusing on developing HDF5 technologies.