Presenter

Dr. Pavan Balaji holds appointments as an Applied Research Scientist, Technical Lead, and Manager, at Facebook AI where he leads the HPC Network Communications and Early Industry Partnerships Group. Before joining Facebook, he was a Senior Computer Scientist and Group Lead at the Argonne National Laboratory, where he lead two groups: Programming Models and Runtime Systems and Future Architectures for AI. His research interests include HPC hardware/software codesign for AI workloads, communication runtime systems, networks, and scale-out techniques, parallel programming models and runtime systems for communication and I/O on extreme-scale supercomputing systems, modern system architecture, cloud computing systems, and data-intensive computing. He has more than 200 publications in these areas and has delivered more than 200 talks and tutorials at various conferences and
research institutes.