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Professor and Interim Director
Boeing Centennial Chair in Computer Science
School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Pullman, WA 99164
(509) 335-6760
Email:
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Ananth
Kalyanaraman is a Professor, Boeing Centennial Chair, and Interim
Director at the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, Washington
State University in Pullman. He is the lead PI and the
Director of the NSF-USDA NIFA AgAID
AI Institute for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support
in agriculture. He holds a joint appointment at Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and affiliate faculty
positions at the Molecular
Plant Sciences Graduate Program and the Paul
G. Allen School for Global Health. Ananth received his
bachelors
from Visvesvaraya
National Institute of Technology in Nagpur, India (B.E. in
Computer Science and Engineering, 1998); and subsequently M.S.
(Computer Science, 2002) and Ph.D. (Computer Engineering, 2006) from
Iowa State
University.
Ananth works at
the intersections of parallel computing, graph analytics, and
bioinformatics/computational biology, and at the intersections of data science and AI/machine learning for real-world applications. His focus is on developing
algorithms and software for scalable analysis of large-scale data
from various scientific domains and particularly agriculture, plant
and life sciences. Research in his lab
has been supported by various funding sources including the National
Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Center for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC). Ananth is a recipient of U.S. Department of
Energy Early Career Research Award, and his student-led research
works have received multiple conference best paper awards and a
prestigious graph challenge award. Ananth serves/has served on the
editorial boards of several reputed journals (including TPDS, TCBB,
JPDC, ParCo). Ananth also regularly serves in various conference and
workshop leadership in the areas of parallel processing and
bioinformatics. He
is an Associate Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing (JPDC), and a Vice-Chair for
the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Programming (TCPP), and for the ACM SIGBIO. Ananth is a senior
member of IEEE, and a member of
ACM and SIAM.
Additional
details:
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