ATS Seminar Series: Robert Michael

The Advanced Technologies Section (ATS) of the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL is a world leader in developing and deploying scientific and technical solutions for leadership-class computing environments. The R&D activities of ATS are organized around designing and deploying leadership class systems, developing artificial intelligence solutions for science and smart facilities of the future, and stewardship of data and workflows at scale to enable science. The ATS Seminar Series is a forum for learning from experts and engaging with collaborators to advance their scientific mission.

Seminar Title:

Ecosystem Computing with Sensitive Data

The OLCF is at the forefront of processing protected data at scale with the recently deployed CITADEL capability. CITADEL allows for the central, scalable analysis of data such as Protected Health Information (PHI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and data protected under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Meanwhile, for less sensitive data, edge computing and federated data solutions are being developed and deployed for a variety of use cases including a number of those identified by the INTERSECT Initiative. While edge computing with sensitive data is routine in industry, the application of edge computing to sensitive data in a research context carries with it new unanswered technical and policy related questions which will be explored.

Speaker:

Robert Michael

Chief Data Architect, National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)

J. “Robert” Michael, PhD, is Chief Data Architect for NCCS at ORNL. In this role, Dr. Michael supports the development, refinement, and architecture of strategies to overcome challenges encountered in data-intensive computing across many NCCS programs. Along with identifying cutting edge and innovate solutions to the NCCS’s data science challenges, he acts as a customer facing subject matter expert in the areas of data engineering, data architecture, and resource utilization to ensure that NCCS resources are being efficiently utilized to support a wide range of scientific applications and systems, including those in the protected data space.

For non-disclosure and privacy reasons, this seminar is limited to ORNL staff only.