Background
Dr. Mallikarjun (Arjun) Shankar is the Section Head for the Advanced Technologies Section (ATS) in the National Center for Computational Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a distinguished R&D staff scientist and is the director of the Compute and Data Environment for Science (CADES) at ORNL.
Dr. Shankar received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana. After his doctoral research he worked in industry designing and building next-generation content distribution infrastructures. His research in the national laboratory setting has involved designing large-scale data analysis and modeling systems, sensor networking systems, energy grid monitoring and control frameworks, and deploying middleware to overlay data, computation, and control across systems and infrastructure. His sponsored R&D project outputs have several active users in the federal government as well as in the commercial sector. His research has resulted in over seventy peer-reviewed publications including those that address jointly modeling and simulating systems coupled with observational data, incorporating policy constraints, and creating scalable cross-facility data infrastructure.
Dr. Shankar served on the DOE ASCAC subcommittee on Scientific and Technical Information. He is a member of the AAAS, a Senior Member of the ACM, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Education
R&D Activities Contributions
CADES – Compute and Data Environment for Science - CADES is an ORNL facility to support R&D staff’s scalable computing and data analytics needs—making a research computing toolkit available to every research scientist. CADES…
Grid Modernization – Laboratory Consortium - The Grid Architecture project objectives are to provide a set of architectural depictions, tools, and skills to the utility industry and its extended stakeholders to…
Scalable Data Services Lifecycle and Orchestration - The Advanced Data and Workflow group brings a holistic view to scalable services that span the data lifecycle including how our users ingest, create, analyze,…
DataFed – A Federated Scientific Data Management System - DataFed is a federated, big-data storage, collaboration, and full-life-cycle management system for computational science and/or data analytics within distributed high-performance computing (HPC) and/or cloud-computing environments.…
Awards
2017 — ORNL Significant Event Award – EAGLE-I Deployment
2016 — ORNL Significant Event Award – BEAM System Workflow
2016 — DOE Secretary’s Appreciation Award, Healthcare Simulation
2009 — UT-Battelle Excellence in Science and Technology Award
Publications
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