Dr. Pavan Balaji holds appointments as a Computer Scientist and Group
Lead at the Argonne National Laboratory, as an Institute Fellow of the
Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering at
Northwestern University, and as a Research Fellow of the Computation
Institute at the University of Chicago.  His research interests
include parallel programming models and runtime systems for
communication and I/O, modern system architecture (multi-core,
accelerators, complex memory subsystems, high-speed networks), and
cloud computing systems.  He has nearly 100 publications in these
areas and has delivered nearly 120 talks and tutorials at various
conferences and research institutes.  He is a recipient of several
awards including the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career award in
2012, TEDxMidwest Emerging Leader award in 2013, Crain's Chicago 40
under 40 award in 2012, Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's
Technical Achievement award in 2005, Ohio State University Outstanding
Researcher award in 2005, five best paper awards and various others.
He serves as the worldwide chairperson for the IEEE Technical
Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC).  He has also served as a chair
or editor for nearly 50 journals, conferences and workshops, and as a
technical program committee member in numerous conferences and
workshops.  He is a senior member of the IEEE and a professional
member of the ACM.  More details about Dr. Balaji are available at
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji.