Presenter

Anirban Mandal serves as the Assistant Director for network research and infrastructure at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He conducts research on distributed systems, cloud computing, networking, and data-driven scientific workflows, with particular focus on enabling the use of advanced cyberinfrastructure in support of scientific computing. His research deals with resource provisioning, scheduling, performance analysis, and anomaly detection for large scale scientific cyberinfrastructures, next generation networks, and experimental testbeds. Prior to joining RENCI, he earned his PhD degree in Computer Science from Rice University in 2006 and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Mumbai in 2000.