Dr. Kyle Chard

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Biography

Kyle Chard is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, holding a joint appointment with Argonne National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 2011. As a member of ACM and IEEE, he received the IEEE TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing. Chard contributes to the Globus team, which won an R&D100 award, and received the New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship. He co-leads the Globus Labs research group, which focuses on data-intensive computing and research data management. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing, and Scientific Computing, particularly in applying new computational approaches to address complex scientific challenges across various domains like biology, earth science, materials science, astrophysics, and archaeology. He leads NSF-funded projects aimed at improving distributed parallel computing, scientific reproducibility, and research automation, along with cost-aware utilization of cloud infrastructure.

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