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Professor
Boeing Centennial Chair in Computer Science
Associate Director
School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Pullman, WA 99164
(509) 335-6760
Email:
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Ananth
Kalyanaraman is a Professor and Boeing Centennial Chair
in Computer Science at the School
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington
State University in Pullman. He is the Director of the
NSF-USDA NIFA funded AgAID AI
Institute for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support in
agriculture. He serves as the Associate Director for the School
of EECS, and also holds a joint appointment at Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He holds 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 intersection of parallel computing, graph analytics, and
bioinformatics/computational biology. 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), and also regularly
serves in various capacities including organizational capacities at
various conferences in the areas of parallel processing and
bioinformatics. He is currently serving as a Vice-Chair for the IEEE
Technical Committee on Parallel Programming (TCPP). Ananth
is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of
ACM and
SIAM.
Additional
details:
You can download
my comprehensive CV here.
I tweet
occasionally (although on random topics) and you can follow me
@ananth_k on Twitter.
@AgAID_Institute
#parallelcomputing #compbio #hpc #datascience #graphanalytics
I am always
looking for highly motivated graduate students to join my group. If
you are a prospective graduate student, please visit the Prospective
Students page.
