Dr. Pavan Balaji holds appointments as a Computer Scientist and Group
Lead at the Argonne National Laboratory, as an Institute Fellow of the
Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering at
Northwestern University, and as a Research Fellow of the Computation
Institute at the University of Chicago.  He leads the Programming
Models and Runtime Systems group at Argonne.  His research interests
include parallel programming models and runtime systems for
communication and I/O on extreme-scale supercomputing systems, modern
system architecture, cloud computing systems, data-intensive
computing, and big-data sciences.  He has more than 150 publications
in these areas and has delivered more than 160 talks and tutorials at
various conferences and research institutes.

Dr. Balaji is a recipient of several awards including the IEEE TCSC
Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career) in 2015,
U.S. Department of Energy Early Career award in 2012, TEDxMidwest
Emerging Leader award in 2013, Crain's Chicago 40 under 40 award in
2012, Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's Technical Achievement
award in 2005, Ohio State University Outstanding Researcher award in
2005, six best paper awards, one best paper finalist, and one best
poster finalist.  He has served as a chair or editor for nearly 50
journals, conferences and workshops, and as a technical program
committee member in numerous conferences and workshops.  Most
recently, he is serving as the papers chair for the International
Supercomputing Conference (ISC) for the 2017 edition of the
conference.  He is a senior member of the IEEE and a professional
member of the ACM.  More details about Dr. Balaji are available at
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji.