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Rachana Ananthakrishnan is Executive Director & Head of Products at the University of Chicago, and has a Joint Staff Appointment at Argonne National Laboratory.  In her role at the university, she leads the Globus (www.globus.org) department, which delivers a research data management platform to national and international research institutions. She also serves on the WestGrid Board of Directors, and is a member of the InCommon Community Assurance and Trust Board. 

Her work is focused on the research and education field, and she has worked on security and data management solutions on various projects including Earth System Grid (ESG), Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) and Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). Prior to that she worked on the Globus Toolkit engineering and customer engagement teams, leading the efforts in web services and security technologies. Rachana received her MS in Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Vas is the 鈥渃ustomer guy鈥� at Globus, the de facto standard platform for research data management, developed and operated by the University of Chicago. He is also a lecturer in the Masters Program in Computer Science at the University, where he teaches courses on Cloud Computing and Product Management. Vas has over 30 years of experience in operational and consulting roles, spanning strategy, marketing and technology, and was instrumental in bringing many emerging technologies as products to market. He consults with both global enterprises and early stage technology startups on product management and go-to-market strategy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasiliadis/

As the founding executive director of UCI鈥檚 multidisciplinary Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute, Bryan Cunningham is focused on solution-oriented strategies that address technical, legal and policy challenges to combat cyber threats; protect individual privacy and civil liberties; maintain public safety, economic and national security; and empower Americans to take better control of their digital security. 

Cunningham is a leading international expert on cybersecurity law and policy, a former White House lawyer and adviser and a media commentator on cybersecurity, technology and surveillance issues. He has appeared on ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, FOX and other networks. 

Cunningham has extensive experience in senior U.S. government intelligence and law enforcement positions. He served as Deputy Legal Adviser to then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. He also served six years in the Clinton administration as a senior CIA officer and federal prosecutor. He drafted significant portions of the Homeland Security Act and related legislation, helping to shepherd them through Congress. He was a principal contributor to the first National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, worked closely with the 9/11 Commission and provided legal advice to the President, National Security Advisor, the National Security Council, and other senior government officials on intelligence, terrorism, cyber security and other related matters.

Cunningham is a founding partner of the Washington, DC-Los Angeles firm Cunningham Levy Muse, and his law practice has included assisting Fortune 500 and multinational companies to comply with complex legal regulations under U.S. federal law, myriad state laws and the numerous privacy and security requirements in the European Union and other overseas jurisdictions. 

He was founding vice-chair of the American Bar Association Cyber Security Privacy Task Force and was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for his work on information issues. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Biodefense Analysis, the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and the Bipartisan Policy Center鈥檚 Cyber Security Task Force. He is also the principal author of legal and ethics chapters in several cybersecurity textbooks.

Jay Bardhan is the leader for the . Bardhan joined EMSL in May 2020, after nearly three years at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where he worked in a number of roles at the intersection of computing, data, and business innovation. Prior to GSK, Bardhan had spent over 15 years researching mathematical and computational models for biomolecule solvation—or the interactions between biomolecules and the surrounding solvent. His interest in solvation stems from both the intersections of his research interests (computing, biology, and physics) and the breadth of applications—environment, energy, and human health. Bardhan was originally an electrical engineer who expected to design circuits in Silicon Valley, but discovered his passion for molecular solvation and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) mission space during his PhD, and his postdoctoral fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory.

Research Interests


Modeling biomolecule-solvent interactions
Numerical algorithms and optimization
Boundary-integral equations and partial-differential equations
Multiscale modeling


Education


PhD in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006)
MS in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001)
BS in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000)
Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing, Argonne National Laboratory (2006 – 2008)


Awards and Recognition


Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, DOE (2002 – 2006)
Frederick A. Howes Scholar (2007)


Affiliations and Professional Service


Subcommittee Member, “Exascale Transition” for Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (2019 – 2020)
Member, Technical Program Committee (Applications Area), 2020 Supercomputing Conference
Vice-Chair, Technical Program Committee (State of the Practice Area), Supercomputing Conference (2017)
Member, Technical Program Committee (State of the Practice Area), Supercomputing Conference, (2014, 2015)
Screening and Selection Committee, Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, DOE (2008 – 2020)

Balaji Padmanabhan has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and a PhD from New York University’s Stern School of Business and has worked in the data science, AI/machine learning and business analytics areas for 25 years. His current work addresses the design of artificial and augmented intelligence solutions that combine data, machine learning and modeling the real-world through complex systems simulations and has broad applications across business, policy, media and healthcare. He has published extensively in data science and related areas at premier journals and conferences in the field and has served on the editorial board of leading journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems Research, Big Data, ACM Transactions on MIS and the Journal of Business Analytics.